Stairs fly as straight as hawks;
Or else in spirals, curve out of curve, pausing
At a ledge to poise their wings before relaunching.
Stairs sway at the height of their flight
Like a melody in Tristan;
Or swoop to the ground with glad spread of their feathers
Before they close them.

They curiously investigate
The shells of buildings,
A hollow core,
Shell in a shell.

Useless to produce their path to infinity
Or turn it to a moral symbol,
For their flight is ambiguous, upwards or downwards as you please;
Their fountain is frozen,
Their concertina is silent.

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Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus

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Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh

Poems in English 

• Alicante Lullaby by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Aerialist by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Study in Hands by Théophile Gautier by Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier
• Smoke by Théophile Gautier by Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier
• Last Wish by Théophile Gautier by Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier
• Work and Play by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• Wind by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• Tractor by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• Thrushes by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• Thistles by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• The Warm and the Cold by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• The Thought-Fox by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• The Owl by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• The Minotaur by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• The Harvest Moon by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• The Child Is Father To The Man by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• Spring & Fall: To A Young Child by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• September by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• Pied Beauty by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• Old Age Gets Up by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

Doska or the Board – write anything

Search engines:

Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.

Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees

Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

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