purple flag iris

"A faint, sickening scent of irises

Persists all morning. Here in a jar on the table

A fine proud spike of purple irises

Rising up in the class-room litter, makes me unable

To see the class’s lifted and bended faces

Save in a broken pattern, amid purple and gold and sable."

 

D.H.Lawrence - Scent of Irises

1885-1930

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