Fire to Fire by Mark Doty

Author:Mark Doty [Doty, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Published: 2008-03-11T05:00:00+00:00

so utterly of the coming world it is.

CRÊPE DE CHINE

These drugstore windows

—one frame in the mile-long film

of lit-up trash and nothing

fronting the avenue, what Balzac called

“the great poem of display”—

are a tableau of huge bottles

of perfume, unbuyable gallons of scent

for women enormous as the movie screens

of my childhood. Spiritual pharmaceuticals

in their deco bottles,

wide-shouldered, flared,

arrayed in their pastel skylines,

their chrome-topped tiers:

a little Manhattan of tinted alcohols.

Only reading their names

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