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
- Robert Burns: Second Epistle to Davie: A Brother Poet
- The Golden Year! poem – Alfred Austin
- Day’s Rain Is Done poem – Alexander Pushkin
- On The Cliffs Newport
- Sonnet LXII by William Shakespeare
- Weekend Glory by Maya Angelou
- Back To The Border
- Зинаида Александрова – Карманный фонарик
- The Winner by Shel Silverstein
- Lepracaun or Fairy Shoemaker, The by William Allingham
- Riden Hwome At Night by William Barnes
- A Little Song poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Orlando Furioso Canto 1 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Woken Up By Beautiful Dreams
- Religious Obsession — translation from Dharmamoha by Rabindranath Tagore
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).
