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D H Lawrence Painted My Bathroom<\/strong>*<\/p>\n I kid you not. He did it for \u2018fun\u2019. transcendental doodlings Diced panels of booming symbols: Every day I bathe in stars and stripes \u2026the snap in his dragon <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Natalie Scott<\/strong> is published by Indigo Dreams, Mudfog and Bradshaw Books. She enjoys telling stories from unusual or marginalised perspectives. Her latest project Rare Birds \u2013 Voices of Holloway Prison<\/em> was awarded a Grant for the Arts to research and write a collection of dramatic monologues. Links: www.nataliescott.co.uk\u00a0<\/a> www.penpower.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" D H Lawrence Painted My Bathroom* I kid you not. He did it for \u2018fun\u2019. Swapped word for image and went to town on my blurry window panes: transcendental doodlings in primary colours, mostly with a bit of teal for good measure. And white. Recondite white. Diced panels of booming symbols: a conceptual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14429,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14428\/revisions\/14429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSwapped word for image
\nand went to town
\non my blurry window panes:<\/p>\n
\nin primary colours, mostly
\nwith a bit of teal for good measure.
\nAnd white. Recondite white.<\/p>\n
\na conceptual chicken, an abstract cat,
\na cactus (or phallus?) buzzes with zigzag spikes
\nthe ideal of what\u2019s on the other side.<\/p>\n
\nand who else has a totem pole (or phallus?)
\nat the foot of their tub?
\nThis room is the vista of his years\u2026<\/p>\n
\ntingling with his mastery, sated by colour.
\nAh \u2026 yes, D H Lawrence painted my bathroom.
\nNot many people can say that.
\n
\n*D H Lawrence stayed at Mabel Dodge Luhan\u2019s house in 1925<\/p>\n