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
- The Idle Shepherd Boys by William Wordsworth
- Anchor Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Malay Song
- Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea by William Shakespeare
- Sonet 39 by William Alexander
- Address spoken by Miss Fontenelle by Robert Burns
- On The Death Of Damon. (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Here’s to the Mice! by Vachel Lindsay
- Aunt’s Tantrums by William Barnes
- Lullaby by William Butler Yeats
- Николай Глазков – Пошел тропой
- Владимир Солоухин – Вдоль берегов Болгарии прошли мы
- Sleep by Russell Edson
- Love’s Blindness poem – Alfred Austin
- human_charms.html
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).
