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:
- The Boy by Marilyn Hacker
- Robert Burns: How Cruel Are The Parents: Altered from an old English song. tune-“John Anderson, my jo.”
- Encounter In The Chestnut Avenue by Rainer Maria Rilke
- You Ask Me, Why, Tho’ Ill at Ease poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Francis II, King of Naples poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Dionysus poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- English Poetry. John Townsend Trowbridge. Midwinter. Джон Таунсенд Троубридж.
- When Bryan Speaks by Vachel Lindsay
- The Old Men Admiring Themselves In The Water by William Butler Yeats
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 4 poem – Alexander Pope
- Dissolve in kisses, I would like to dissolve in your kisses
- Robert Burns: Epigram At Roslin Inn:
- What is Forged Steel Roll and How is it Involved in Industry?
- Юлий Даниэль – Ах, недостреляли, недобили
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
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
