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
- Николай Гумилев – Никогда не сделаю я так
- Hug O’War by Shel Silverstein
- My Child Wafts Peace by Yehuda Amichai
- Sonnet poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- At The Gate Of A Hospital by Shahida Latif
- Зинаида Александрова – Четыре старушки
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Н. Ф. Щербине
- I Call Your Name In My Heart by Samuel Stephen Wakdok
- Владимир Маяковский – Смотри, шахтер! (РОСТА №894)
- Dedication For A Plot Of Ground by William Carlos Williams
- Guenevere by Sara Teasdale
- After by William Ernest Henley
- Олег Бундур – Дедушка
- To A Girl In A Garden by Sappho
- In a Subway Station by Sara Teasdale
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).
