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 Высоцкий – Это вовсе не френч-канкан
- The Most Exquisite Creature Of My Dreams by Mac McGovern
- The Legatee poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Константин Батюшков – Любовь в челноке
- Staffa poem – John Keats poems
- Иван Мятлев – Наставление Гр[афине] Р[астопчиной]
- Юрий Коринец – Дедовский подарок
- The River by Mark Olynyk
- Ma Wonders by Miraj Patel
- Михаил Лермонтов – Бой с барсом (Отрывок Мцыри)
- Анатолий Жигулин – Ах, речка, речка Тебердинка
- Jock O The Side poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Absence: A Farewell Ode On Quitting School For Jesus College by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Владимир Маяковский – За четыре года советской власти… (Главполитпросвет №248)
- On Mistress Nicely, a Pattern for Housekeepers by Thomas Hood
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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
