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Deadish

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Dead´ish
a.1.Somewhat dead, dull, or lifeless; deathlike.
The lips put on a deadish paleness.
- A. Stafford.
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Hers is a highly pragmatic aesthetic, and if at times this poem suggests William Carlos Williams' "Desert Music" it is not only because of allusive lines like "Under the Bridge of Martyrs / Disposition of small limbs / A face dark and deadish," but because Wright deploys effectively a poetics of immediacy we have all admired in Williams and tried to emulate.
RISING, FALLING, HOVERING by Doreski, William / Harvard Review
He returned to Prestbury Park where he was sent off favourite for a Class 2 handicap over 2m, but he failed to act on the deadish ground and after being niggled from some way out, finished just over two lengths behind O'Toolein fourth.
Horse Racing: MALJIMAR TO NICK IT; Jacob to ride cracker for Williams ... by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
It would have to be soft at Cheltenham for him to run in the Arkle, but the two-mile-five-furlong trip in the Jewson on deadish or slow ground would be good.
Burke eyeing Jewson for Gardasee by The Racing Post (London, England)
 
 
 
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