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
- Robert Burns Country: In The Character Of A Ruined Farmer:
- Зинаида Александрова – Игрушки
- Growltiger’s Last Stand by T. S. Eliot
- Thomas Lux – Thomas Lux
- Юрий Коринец – Старухи
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот за то, что я пою… (Главполитпросвет №153)
- “`The smiling slopes with olive groves bedecked” poem – Alfred Austin
- A Farmhouse on the Wei River by Wang Wei
- Robert Burns: Behold The Hour, The Boat, Arrive:
- On The Wedding Of The Aeronaut poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- A poodle and a hound by Victoria Rose
- On Leaving Some Friends At An Early Hour poem – John Keats poems
- Total Recount by Pamela Griffiths
- Алексей Толстой – Слепой
- A Mother’s Lament for her Son’s Death by Robert Burns
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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).
