09-08-2018, 05:09 PM
I'm not sure if I'm getting your message here - can't really imagine an unbred hen. I kept hens for eggs for years, and there were different coloured, shaped, and sized, eggs - including white. The fact that eggs are laid through the common cloaca means that endearing trace of shit on the egg that traps the fluffy bum feather. I'm wondering if I'm missing clues in your poem - the shell could be the shell in the birth of Venus, but white-washed, and un-bred, could refer to discrimination on the basis of colour.