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

Talking Writing Monster’s Page –

Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh

Poems in English 

• Яков Полонский – Одному из усталых by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – Ночная дума by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – Ночь в Крыму by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – Ночь на восточном берегу Черного моря by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – Нищий by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – Неотвязная by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – Не жди by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – Наплывает туча с моря by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – На Женевском озере by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – На закате by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – На пути by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – На искусе by Яков Полонский
• Яков Полонский – Н. А. Грибоедова by Яков Полонский
• Юлий Даниэль – Друзьям by Поэзия На Русском
• Юлий Даниэль – Дом by Поэзия На Русском
• Юлий Даниэль – Часовой by Поэзия На Русском
• Юлий Даниэль – Ах, недостреляли, недобили by Поэзия На Русском
• Юлий Даниэль – А в это время by Поэзия На Русском
• Юлиан Анисимов – Весенний дождь by Поэзия На Русском
• Юлиан Анисимов – Стихи мои, нежные гости by Поэзия На Русском

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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