Explore "Tortoise Shell (Reptiles)" by D.H. Lawrence on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
The Cross, the Cross / Goes deeper in than we know, / Deeper into life; / Right into the marrow / And through the bone.
Along the back of the baby tortoise / The scales are locked in an arch like a bridge, / Scale-lapping, like a lobster's sections / Or a bee's.