Panic in your face, you write questions
to ask him. When he arrives,
you are serene, your fear
unbetrayed. How unlike me you are.
After the dance,
I see your happiness; he holds
your hand. Though you barely speak,
your body pulses messages I can read
all too well. He kisses you goodnight,
his body moving toward yours, and yours
responding. I am frightened, guard my
tongue for fear my mother will pop out
of my mouth. “He is not shy,” I say. You giggle,
a little girl again, but you tell me he
kissed you on the dance floor. “Once?”
I ask. “No, a lot.”
We ride through rain-shining 1 a.m.
streets. I bite back words which long
to be said, knowing I must not shatter your
moment, fragile as a spun-glass bird,
you, the moment, poised on the edge of
flight, and I, on the ground, afraid.
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Copyright © 1995
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Владимир Корнилов – Сызнова
- Шекспир – С любовью связан жизненный мой путь – Сонет 92
- Владимир Высоцкий – Давайте я спою вам в подражанье радиолам
- Threads of Gold by Ronald G. Auguste
- The Fable of Dryope – Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 9, [v. 324-393] poem – Alexander Pope
- The Superannuated Lover by William Somervile
- The Coronet poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Николай Заболоцкий – Воздушное путешествие
- Tears, Idle Tears poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- It Nods and Curtseys and Recovers poem – A. E. Housman
- Анатолий Жигулин – Иду в полях
- My Desire
- Кондратий Рылеев – Как солнце ни блестит и как оно ни светит
- A Cozy Little Room by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Ольга Берггольц – Мне не поведать о моей утрате
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
