{"id":7510,"date":"2017-04-12T17:42:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T23:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7510"},"modified":"2017-04-12T17:42:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T23:42:53","slug":"sergeant-cuff-names-a-rose-catherine-earnshaw","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7510","title":{"rendered":"Sergeant Cuff names a rose \u2018Catherine Earnshaw\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marie Marshall<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Strife always comes too soon, to hell with
\nsingle spies! The catlike tread in Whitechapel,
\nthe single shoeprint in mud, the sky of Norfolk,
\nthe helter and skelter to outrace a team of Slovaks,
\nthe inch-by-inch through flock wallpapers fingertip
\nto thumb in measurement becomes (in a mind)
\nthe navigation of deltas; so carefully trace in
\nbeautiful serifs, italic, on the bald label thus:
\nC A T H E R I N E\u00a0\u00a0 E A R N S H A W<\/em>,<\/p>\n

and kiss the petals. Sepals, the cupping hand,
\nthe necessary, a map of theosophism, a magnificent
\nice garnered from the profits of Thornton\u2019s of Milton,
\ncarried in a sweethearts bosom to Sevastopol,
\nrumoured in opiate dreams thus: \u2019m cmng fr y,
\nmy lst lve, my dmnd, my chng trsr, brth fr m.
\nO lobes of the calyx, o stamen, o evening pink,
\no Thorne, style and stem, morning pink, shades
\nof skyleap from Nell Trent\u2019s cheek to blood<\/p>\n

[Cuff, porlocked by the arrival of a telegram,
\n\u201cAssistance needed urgent at Rue Morgue,\u201d
\npacks nothing but a slim valise and leaps to
\nhis old calling!] all the time making Thesauri
\nof redness to populate his diary prose; he laughs
\nat his conceit and at the sour syntax of his dreams,
\nwonders who\u2019s concealed behind the firescreen
\nready in ambuscade; and yes, he finds to be torn
\nbetween home\/rose and the great detection game.<\/p>\n

There are no blind all\u00e9es, no cryptogrammed
\nplaint on \u201cJuwes\u201d, just broad Haussmann blvrds
\nand little back-rue caf\u00e9s where dwarved painters
\npick out night belles and dancers to immortalise —
\nand though Cuff may unveil, or pluck from a
\nsweetheart\u2019s bosom, the name of the murderer,
\n(shake hands with Dupin), a Svengali or a simian,
\nhe reflects on the ol\u2019 delta journey, the long century,
\nmy rose, my Catherine. On. His. Moustached. Lip.
\n <\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n

MARIE MARSHALL<\/strong> is an Anglo-Scot in late middle age. She has a humdrum 9-5, and she writes to keep what’s left of her sanity. She has had three novels published (one more pending) and two collections of poetry, one of which was nominated for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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