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
- Years of the Modern. by Walt Whitman
- Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 X. Rob Roy’s Grave by William Wordsworth
- A Paraphrase on an Ode in Horace’s Third Book, beginning thus:— “Inclusam Danaen turris ahenea.” by Abraham Cowley
- The Ballad of the Red Earl by Rudyard Kipling
- xai_kou.html
- Magnolia Shoals by Sylvia Plath
- Sin and Prayer by Satish Verma
- Владимир Маяковский – Пахали сохой — запашем трактором (Главполитпросвет №42)
- The Death of Nicou by Thomas Chatterton
- Li Po drowns by Raj Arumugam
- On The Cliffs Newport
- The Storm by Rainbow Reed
- Федор Сологуб – Зачем, скажи
- A Mesh by Shahida Latif
- English Poetry. Edna St. Vincent Millay. Assault. Эдна Сент-Винсент Миллей.
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).
