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:
- Portrait d’Une Femme poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Beginning of the End by Rixa White
- The Evening Light poem – Alfred Austin
- Олег Бундур – Ужин
- Ольга Высотская – Волны
- Rain by Shel Silverstein
- Conviction (ii) by Stevie Smith
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Водовоз
- The Aisne
- The Saint And The Hunchback by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: A Grace Before Dinner, Extempore:
- Sonnet: “It is not to be thought of” by William Wordsworth
- Юлиан Анисимов – Круглогодие
- How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven by Vachel Lindsay
- A Royal Home-Coming poem – Alfred Austin
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
- Two Lovers And A Beachcomber By The Real Sea by Sylvia Plath
- Two Campers In Cloud Country by Sylvia Plath
- Trio Of Love Songs by Sylvia Plath
- To Eva Descending The Stair by Sylvia Plath
- To A Jilted Lover by Sylvia Plath
- Tinker Jack And The Tidy Wives by Sylvia Plath
- The Trial Of A Man by Sylvia Plath
- The Tour by Sylvia Plath
- The Times Are Tidy by Sylvia Plath
- The Thin People by Sylvia Plath
- The Swarm by Sylvia Plath
- The Surgeon At 2 A.M. by Sylvia Plath
- The Stones by Sylvia Plath
- The Snowman on the Moor by Sylvia Plath
- The Sleepers by Sylvia Plath
- The Shrike by Sylvia Plath
- The Rival by Sylvia Plath
- The Ravaged Face by Sylvia Plath
- The Rabbit Catcher by Sylvia Plath
- The Queen’s Complaint by Sylvia Plath
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