On Gay Wallpaper

The green-blue ground

is ruled with silver lines

to say the sun is shining

And on this moral sea

of grass or dreams lie flowers

or baskets of desires

Heaven knows what they are

between cerulean shapes

laid regularly round

Mat roses and tridentate

leaves of gold

threes, threes and threes

Three roses and three stems

the basket floating

standing in the horns of blue

Repeating to the ceiling

to the windows

where the day

Blows in

the scalloped curtains to

the sound of rain