The woman in the ordinary pudgy downcast girl
is crouching with eyes and muscles clenched.
Round and pebble smooth she effaces herself
under ripples of conversation and debate.
The woman in the block of ivory soap
has massive thighs that neigh,
great breasts that blare and strong arms that trumpet.
The woman of the golden fleece
laughs uproariously from the belly
inside the girl who imitates
a Christmas card virgin with glued hands,
who fishes for herself in other’s eyes,
who stoops and creeps to make herself smaller.
In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry,
a yam of a woman of butter and brass,
compounded of acid and sweet like a pineapple,
like a handgrenade set to explode,
like goldenrod ready to bloom.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Владимир Британишский – Дым отечества
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Mr. Walter Riddell:
- Юлия Друнина – Бережем тех, кого любим
- Invitation To The Redbreast by William Cowper
- Where We Live Now by Philip Levine
- Dance with ME by Neelam Sinha
- Forth went the candid man by Stephen Crane
- Point Shirley by Sylvia Plath
- Hope And Riders
- King And No King by William Butler Yeats
- Of You by Philo Ikonya
- Ольга Берггольц – Майя
- Стефан Малларме – Записка Уистлеру
- Lines to an Old Sweetheart by Robert Burns
- Epistle to John Goldie, in Kilmarnock by Robert Burns
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).
