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 

• Love Sonnet X poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems by Zora Bernice May Cross
• Love Sonnet LX poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems by Zora Bernice May Cross
• Love Sonnet LVIII poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems by Zora Bernice May Cross
• Girl-Gladness poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems by Zora Bernice May Cross
• Fortune poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems by Zora Bernice May Cross
• Elegy On An Australian Schoolboy poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems by Zora Bernice May Cross
• Books poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems by Zora Bernice May Cross
• Sonnet Of Motherhood XLV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster by Zora Bernice May Cross
• Love Sonnet XXV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster by Zora Bernice May Cross
• Love Sonnet LIV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster by Zora Bernice May Cross
• You’re The Only One poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster by Anglo File
• Victims poem – Yaseen Anwer poems | Poetry Monster by Anglo File
• The Senses of Art poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster by Anglo File
• The Details Are poem – Zhivka Baltadzhieva poems | Poetry Monster by Anglo File
• The 9th Inning poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster by Anglo File
• Songs of Depression poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster by Anglo File
• Someone left a pen… poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster by Anglo File
• Some Singers And Their Traits poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster by Anglo File
• Sin poem – Yao Ying poems | Poetry Monster by Anglo File
• Sabbath, My Love poem – Yehudah ha-Levi poems | Poetry Monster by Anglo File

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