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:
- To a Gentleman on His Voyage to Great-Britain by Phillis Wheatley
- Владимир Маяковский – Раньше офицера только рубить учили… (РОСТА №632)
- The Iliad: Book VI (excerpt) poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- See, how I love you by Vinko Kalinić
- Юлия Друнина – Ветер с фронта
- The Falling Of The Leaves by William Butler Yeats
- Олег Григорьев – Дружба
- Альфред Теннисон – Рыцарь Галаад
- Олег Сердобольский – Птенчик
- Владимир Маяковский – Промедление – смерть (Главполитпросвет №339)
- Вероника Тушнова – Я поднимаюсь по колючим склонам
- THE WARS by Satish Verma
- That Shadow, my Likeness. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay:
- Robert Burns: Bessy And Her Spinnin’ Wheel:
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
- The Stwonèn Pworch by William Barnes
- The Stage Coach by William Barnes
- The Sparrow Club by William Barnes
- The Slantèn Light O’ Fall by William Barnes
- The Sky A-Clearen by William Barnes
- The Shy Man by William Barnes
- The Shepherd O’ The Farm by William Barnes
- The Settle An’ The Girt Wood Vire by William Barnes
- The Scud by William Barnes
- The Rwose In The Dark by William Barnes
- The Railroad by William Barnes
- The Poplars by William Barnes
- The Pleäce Our Own Ageän by William Barnes
- The Pleäce A Teäle’s A-Twold O’ by William Barnes
- The Pillar’d Geäte by William Barnes
- The Peasant’s Return by William Barnes
- The New House A-Gettèn’ Wold by William Barnes
- The Neäme Letters by William Barnes
- The Music O’ The Dead by William Barnes
- The Motherless Child by William Barnes
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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