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 

• A Scot To Jeanne D’Arc poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• A Portrait Of 1783 poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• A Highly Valuable Chain Of Thoughts poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• Young Love poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• Upon The Hill And Grove At Bill-borow poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• Upon An Eunuch; A Poet. Fragment poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• Translated poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• Tom May’s Death poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• To Songs At the Marriage Of The Lord Fauconberg And The Lady Mary Cromwell poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• To His Worthy Friend Doctor Witty Upon His Translation Of The Popular Errors poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• to_his_coy_mistress.html by Andrew Marvell
• To His Noble Friend, Mr. Richard Lovelace, Upon His Poems poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• To Christina, Queen of Sweden poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• Thoughts in a Garden poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• The Unfortunate Lover poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• The Picture Of Little T.C. In A Prospect Of Flowers poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• The Mower’s Song poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• The Nymph Complaining For The Death Of Her Faun poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell
• The Mower To The Glo-Worms poem – Andrew Marvell poems by Andrew Marvell

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)

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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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