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
- Юлия Друнина – В школе
- The Storm by Sara Teasdale
- The Change by Tony Hoagland
- Occasioned By The Battle Of Waterloo February 1816 by William Wordsworth
- Among The Narcissi by Sylvia Plath
- Николай Глазков – Покуда карты не раскрыты
- From an Essay on Man poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- A Song of Enchantment by Walter de la Mare
- In The Month When Sings The Cuckoo poem – Alfred Austin
- To The University Of Cambridge, In New-England by Phillis Wheatley
- Альфред де Мюссе – Ива (Как придется мне покинуть свет)
- Омар Хайям – Бокала полного веселый вид мне люб
- Владимир Высоцкий – Наводчица
- The Next Chance
- Nocturno poem – Ana Chig 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).
