In This Cul De Sac

To make sure

You have not said:

“I love you,”

They smell your breath.

They even smell your heart

Trying times are these, my darling.

They flog love

Tied to the post of the cul-de-sac

We must hide love in the closet.

In this serpentine maze

This crooked cold corner

They feed the fire

With poems and songs

Thinking, too, is risky.

Those who, late at night, knock on the door,

Are there to kill the lamp.

We must hide the light in the closet.

Then there are the butchers

Stationed at all cross-roads,

Armed with a block and a bloody cleaver.

Trying times these are, my darling.

Surgically,

They plant smiles on lips,

And songs in the mouths.

We must hide joy in the closet.

On lilies and lilacs,

They roast the canaries.

Trying times these are, my darling.

Drunk with victory, the Devil,

Celebrates our wake.

We must hide God in the closet.

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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 

• Getting There by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Full Fathom Five by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Frog Autumn by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Firesong by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Finisterre by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Fiesta Melons by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Fever 103° by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Female Author by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Faun by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Face Lift by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Event by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Elm by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Ella Mason And Her Eleven Cats by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Edge by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Eavesdropper by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Doomsday by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Dialogue En Route by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Dialogue Between Ghost And Priest by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Departure by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Denouement Villanelle by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath

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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