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
- The Borders by Sharon Olds
- Омар Хайям – Что я дружу с вином, не отрицаю, нет
- I Found A Few Old Letters by Rabindranath Tagore
- Валерий Брюсов – Два мака
- The Hosting Of The Sidhe by William Butler Yeats
- Utopia by Ndue Ukaj
- No! by Thomas Hood
- Иван Варавва – Мать Кубань
- Sonnet: Oh! How I Love, On A Fair Summer’s Eve poem – John Keats poems
- What the Coal-Heaver Said by Vachel Lindsay
- Ольга Берггольц – Знаю, чем меня пленила
- Владимир Высоцкий – Знать бы все до конца бы и сразу б
- Джон Мильтон – Псалом 8
- Николай Заболоцкий – Начало зимы
- Out of Town poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
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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).
