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:
- Lover’s Gifts XXXIX: There Is a Looker-On by Rabindranath Tagore
- Feelings Of A Noble Biscayan At One Of Those Funerals by William Wordsworth
- Sacred Epiphany poem – Ammar Nadeem poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот за то, что я пою… (Главполитпросвет №153)
- The Dregs Of Love poem – Alfred Austin
- The Kiss by Rabindranath Tagore
- Ольга Ермолаева – В кирзовых сапогах скользить по горной глине
- Lines Written As A School Exercise At Hawkshead, Anno Aetatis 14 by William Wordsworth
- Olney Hymn 33: Seeking The Beloved by William Cowper
- Li Po, the moon and me by Raj Arumugam
- Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur (excerpt) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Dance with ME by Neelam Sinha
- Николай Гумилев – Мадагаскар
- Николай Языков – С. П. Шевыреву (Тебе хвала, и честь, и слава)
- Василий Казин – Ожидание
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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
