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:
- English Literature for Shaping Your Ideas
- Олег Бундур – Вовка дразнит Свету
- Song—Beware o’ Bonie Ann by Robert Burns
- Forth went the candid man by Stephen Crane
- Илья Зданевич – Галоша
- Sonnet 129: Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame by William Shakespeare
- We Are As The Flute by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Robert Burns: She Says She Loes Me Best Of A’:
- Prologue to Rodin in Rime poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- She’s My Ever Lovin’ Machine by Shel Silverstein
- John Barleycorn: A Ballad by Robert Burns
- Psalm 19: Coeli Enarrant by Sir Philip Sidney
- Алексей Ржевский – Долго ль прельщаться
- Владимир Маяковский – Сейчас беднее нас нет… (РОСТА №742)
- House Of Silence by Philip Levine
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
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