You're yearning for pearls in this one? Yes, nice touch--but on the other hand, think of all the readers who may have had enough of "pearl-like teeth" between cherry lips! They may have boycotts of their own to suggest! Slippery slope--oops, overused image--but slippery slope nevertheless, this demand for (or rejection of) certain images for thier own sake, without regard for thier organic fit ( or lack threof) in the specific poem in question. After all, the pearl (or crow, or dance, or moon) that seems all wrong in Poem X may be the very making of Poem Y.
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