Exiles
by Marilyn Hacker
Her brown falcon perches above the sink
as steaming water forks over my hands.
Below the wrists they shrivel and turn pink.
I am in exile in my own land.
Her half-grown cats scuffle across the floor
trailing a slime of blood from where they fed.
I lock the door. They claw under the door.
I am an exile in my own bed.
Her spotted mongrel, bristling with red mange,
sleeps on the threshold of the Third Street bar
where I drink brandy as the couples change.
I am in exile where my neighbors are.
On the pavement, cans of ashes burn.
Her green lizard scuttles from the light
around torn cardboard charred to glowing fern.
I am in exile in my own sight.
Her blond child sits on the stoop when I come
back at night. Cold hands, blue lids; we both
need sleep. She tells me she is going to die.
I am in exile in my own youth.
Lady of distances, this fire, this water,
this earth makes sanctuary where I stand.
Call of your animals and your blond daughter,
I am in exile in my own hands.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Тайна
- Ione, Dead the Long Year poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Fragment on Sensibility by Robert Burns
- Гавриил Державин – На выздоровление мецената
- So Long! by Precious Tahula
- Dedication To The Edition Of 1876 To H.J.A. poem – Alfred Austin
- A Souless Singer poem – Alfred Austin
- By The Fates poem – Alfred Austin
- The Spring passing away by Shailendra Chauhan
- Виктор Шамонин-Версенев – Волк-дурень
- Until You’ve Found Pain by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Sonnet. Written In Disgust Of Vulgar Superstition poem – John Keats poems
- The Wheel Routs by William Barnes
- Владимир Луговской – Фотограф
- Владимир Британишский – Архитектор Юрий Фельтен
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
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