Queen-Ann’s-Lace + 

Her body is not so white as + 

anemony petals nor so smooth⁠—nor + 

so remote a thing. It is a field + 

of the wild carrot taking + 

the field by force; the grass + 

does not raise above it. + 

Here is no question of whiteness, + 

white as can be, with a purple mole + 

at the center of each flower. + 

Each flower is a hand’s span + 

of her whiteness. Wherever + 

his hand has lain there is + 

a tiny purple blemish. Each part + 

is a blossom under his touch + 

to which the fibres of her being + 

stem one by one, each to its end, + 

until the whole field is a + 

white desire, empty, a single stem, + 

a cluster, flower by flower, + 

a pious wish to whiteness gone over⁠— + 

or nothing. + 