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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External links

Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus

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Poems in English 

• Николай Заболоцкий – Поэт by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Подводный город by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Пир в доме Бомбеева by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Пекарня by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Оттепель by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Осенний клен by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Осеннее утро by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Офорт by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Одиссей и Сирены by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Обводной канал by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Обед by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Новый быт by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Ночное гулянье by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Ночь в лесу by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Неудачник by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Небесная Севилья by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Народный дом by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – Начало зимы by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – На закате by Николай Заболоцкий
• Николай Заболоцкий – На рынке by Николай Заболоцкий

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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