Ontological
by Maggie Anderson
This is going to cost you.
If you really want to hear a
country fiddle, you have to listen
hard, high up in its twang and needle.
You can’t be running off like this,
all knotted up with yearning,
following some train whistle,
can’t hang onto anything that way.
When you’re looking for what’s lost,
everything’s a sign,
but you have to stay right up next to
the drawl and pull of the thing
you thought you wanted, had to
have it, could not live without it.
Honey, you will lose your beauty
and your handsome sweetie, this whine,
this agitation, the one you sent for
with your leather boots and your guitar.
The lonesome snag of barbed wire you have
wrapped around your heart is cash money,
honey, you will have to pay.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Алексей Толстой – С тех пор как я один
- I Didn’t Apologize to the Well by Mahmoud Darwish
- Cuchulain Comforted by William Butler Yeats
- Яков Полонский – Нищий
- Sonnet 150: O from what power hast thou this powerful might by William Shakespeare
- Practising The Anthem
- A DARK HOUSE by Satish Verma
- A Morning Exercise by William Wordsworth
- Kangaroo talks to the Sun by Raj Arumugam
- Юлия Друнина – Чтоб человек от стужи не застыл
- Twelve O’Clock by Rabindranath Tagore
- On seeing Mrs. Kemble in Yarico by Robert Burns
- Иван Киуру – Человек
- Иван Бунин – Апрель
- The Daguerreotype by William Vaughn Moody
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
