Today I feel the need for this long-loved poem. It is not snowing but I need to assert the incorrigible plurality of world.
Snow
The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was
Spawning snow and pink roses against it
Soundlessly collateral and incompatible:
World is suddener than we fancy it.
World is crazier and more of it than we think,
Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion
A tangerine and spit the pips and feel
The drunkenness of things being various.
And the fire flames with a bubbling sound for world
Is more spiteful and gay than one supposes–
On the tongue on the eyes on the ears in the palms of your hands–
There is more than glass between the snow and the huge roses.
Louis MacNeice, 1935.
a newly finished painting
Still Undoing the Arrangement. Acrylic, collage and déchirage on canvas. Lynne Cameron, 2016.
I found the background and interpretation of the poem on these two pages insightful:
http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=14988
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/louis-macneice