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:
- Владимир Маяковский – О дряни
- My prayers must meet a brazen heaven poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Федор Сологуб – Колёса по рельсам гудели
- South London Sketch poem – John Betjeman poems
- An Epitaph by Walter de la Mare
- Николай Тихонов – Даль полевая, как при Калите
- Epistle To Mrs Teresa Blount.[On Her Leaving The Town After The Coronation] poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Sonnet Of Motherhood XXIX poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Ольга Берггольц – Ты в пустыню меня послала
- Олег Григорьев – Я взял бумагу и перо
- Passer-By, These Are Words by Yves Bonnefoy
- Владимир Маяковский – Военно-морская любовь
- Epitaph On An Infant. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Song—O can ye Labour Lea? by Robert Burns
- Владимир Высоцкий – Отпустите мне грехи
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
More external links (open in a new tab):
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