Fox – The Poetry Monster

A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)

I needed fox Badly I needed

a vixen for the long time none had come near me

I needed recognition from a

triangulated face burnt-yellow eyes

fronting the long body the fierce and sacrificial tail

I needed history of fox briars of legend it was said she had run through

I was in want of fox

And the truth of briars she had to have run through

I craved to feel on her pelt if my hands could even slide

past or her body slide between them sharp truth distressing surfaces of fur

lacerated skin calling legend to account

a vixen’s courage in vixen terms

For a human animal to call for help

on another animal

is the most riven the most revolted cry on earth

come a long way down

Go back far enough it means tearing and torn endless and sudden

back far enough it blurts

into the birth-yell of the yet-to-be human child

pushed out of a female the yet-to-be woman

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External links

Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus

Talking Writing Monster’s Page –

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

Poems in English

Fancy poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
Epistle To My Brother George poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
Endymion: Book IV poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
Endymion: Book III poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
Endymion: Book II poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
Bards of Passion and of Mirth, written on the Blank Page before Beaumont and Fletcher’s Tragi-Comedy ‘The Fair Maid of the Inn’ poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
Addressed To Haydon poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
A Thing of Beauty (Endymion) poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
When the Assault Was Intended to the City poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
Upon The Circumcision poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
To the Same poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
To The Nightingale poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
To the Lady Margaret Ley poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
To Sr Henry Vane The Younger poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
To My Lord Fairfax poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
To Mr. Lawrence poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
To Mr. H. Lawes on His Airs poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
To Mr. Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness poem – John Milton poems by John Milton

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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Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist.

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