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 

• Sonnet LI by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet L by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet IX by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet IV: Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet IV by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet III: Look In Thy Glass, and Tell the Face Thou Viewest by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet III by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet II: When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet II by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet I: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet I by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXXXVIII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXXXVII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXXXVI by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXXXV by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXXXIX by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXXXIV by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXXXIII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXXXII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXXXI by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

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

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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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