and in her lap / smoothing the apple-green—

     the color of her new sweater,

which went with the green of her eyes,

       intensified them—though, often as not,

she was smoothing the cat—

by Sarah Maclay

The phrases that appear as titles, and many of the additional italicized phrases within these poems, are drawn from HD’s 29th poem in “Tribute to the Angels,” the second part of her Trilogy.