Dogs take new friends abruptly and by smell,
Cats’ meetings are neat, tactual, caressive.
Monkeys exchange their fleas before they speak.
Snakes, no doubt, coil by coil reach mutual knowledge.

We then, at first encounter, should be silent;
Not court the cortex but the epidermis;
Not work from inside out but outside in;
Discover each other’s flesh, its scent and texture;
Familiarize the sinews and the nerve-ends,
The hands, the hair; before the inept lips open.

Instead of which we are resonant, explicit.
Our words like windows intercept our meaning.
Our four eyes fence and flinch and awkwardly
Wince into shadow, slide oblique to ambush.
Hands stir, retract. The pulse is insulated.
Blood is turned inwards, lonely; skin unhappy …
While always under all, but interrupted,
Antennae stretch … waver … and almost … touch.

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Poems in English 

• The Bell Buoy by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Ballad of the Red Earl by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Ballad of the King’s Mercy by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Ballad of the King’s Jest by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Ballad of Fisher’s Boarding-House by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Ballad of East and West by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Answer by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Tarrant Moss by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Sussex by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Study of an Elevation, In Indian Ink by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• South Africa by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Song of the Wise Children by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Song of the Red War-Boat by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Song of Diego Valdez by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Soldier an’ Sailor Too by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Snarleyow by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Sir Richard’s Song by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Shillin’ a Day by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Seven Watchmen by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Seal Lullaby by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling

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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