The woman in the ordinary pudgy downcast girl
is crouching with eyes and muscles clenched.
Round and pebble smooth she effaces herself
under ripples of conversation and debate.
The woman in the block of ivory soap
has massive thighs that neigh,
great breasts that blare and strong arms that trumpet.
The woman of the golden fleece
laughs uproariously from the belly
inside the girl who imitates
a Christmas card virgin with glued hands,
who fishes for herself in other’s eyes,
who stoops and creeps to make herself smaller.
In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry,
a yam of a woman of butter and brass,
compounded of acid and sweet like a pineapple,
like a handgrenade set to explode,
like goldenrod ready to bloom.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Ballade Of Queen Anne poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Владимир Британишский – Сон: в детстве, весной, в лесу
- Strike, Churl poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Sparrow singing by Yosa Buson
- The Song Of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats
- Entering the Body by Michelle Bonczek Evory
- Иннокентий Анненский – Леконт де Лиль. Из стихотворения «Призраки»
- Ольга Берггольц – Из “Писем с дороги”
- Федор Сологуб – Круг начертан, и Сивилла
- The Bagpipe Who Didn’t Say No by Shel Silverstein
- Владислав Ходасевич – Новый год
- My Mask poem – Amy Haritha Suseel poems | Poems and Poetry
- Oh Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast by Robert Burns
- Rain by Shel Silverstein
- Wish by W. S. Merwin
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).
