Through your lens the sequoia swallowed me
like a dryad. The camera flashed & forgot.
I, on the other hand, must practice my absent-
mindedness, memory being awkward as a touch
that goes unloved. Lately your eyes have shut
down to a shade more durable than skin’s. I know you
love distance, how it smooths. You choose an aerial view,
the city angled to abstraction, while I go for the close
exposures: poorly-mounted countenances along Broadway,
the pigweed cracking each hardscrabble backlot.
It’s a matter of perspective: yours is to love me
from a block away & mine is to praise the grain-
iness that weaves expressively: your face.
1983, Dance Script with Electric Ballerina (University of Illinois Press)
Copyright ©:
Alice Fulton
A few random poems:
- TEMPORARY AND NOW by PEGGY AYLSWORTH
- Revenge of the Ghost of the Betrayed Husband by Raj Arumugam
- Ольга Берггольц – Обещание
- Sea Shell poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Ольга Ермолаева – Я так же, как ты, от стыда опускаю ресницы
- Жан де Лафонтен – Мужчина средних лет и его две Возлюбленные
- Study of an Elevation, In Indian Ink by Rudyard Kipling
- Anchor Song by Rudyard Kipling
- For Roman Polanski by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Passed Away Pain by Shalini Samuel
- Олег Григорьев – Мазохисту на лавке
- Southern Sunrise by Sylvia Plath
- Шекспир – Чтобы стихи, рожденные когда-то – Сонет 38
- Marine Snow At Mid-Depths And Down by Thomas Lux
- A Memory by Rupert Brooke
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
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Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
