gwendrina's cupboard http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/forums/18 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:07:44 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Yuku http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/forums/18 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ <![CDATA[ Ma Belle Mané ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3552/t/Ma-Belle-Man-.html image

For Marie-France... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3552 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:01:30 GMT <![CDATA[ Haberdashery ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3551/t/Haberdashery.html


The magician flips his hat
and pulls out
the white hare who baffled Alice,

the silk scarves
Elle or Svana wore
on the Paris runway.

But I want the hat
to become the illusionist
turning itself
into a... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3551 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:41:40 GMT <![CDATA[ The Goddess Of Death Wishes Otherwise ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3550/t/The-Goddess-Of-Death-Wishes-Otherwise.html
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And so my season comes early, hills
all polished with its glaze, cauldron-pour
of heavy sleet. They gleam
like the skulls I will scour and stack
along the garden's landscape.

How many will die this year?
Even I don't know that... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3550 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:35:52 GMT <![CDATA[ Schism ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3546/t/Schism.html Schism
(Said of him
after the departure.)
Morning's closure was a gate
your hands latched, suitcases they lifted
into the new convertible,
its canvas top
rolled back but ready to combat
rain and lightning flashed
along the sky, a raw nerve
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3546 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:43:13 GMT <![CDATA[ Some Bananas and A Glance Backwards ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3545/t/Some-Bananas-and-A-Glance-Backwards.html and they hung from a metal hook
with arched backs and freckled skin
invoking the savage
eeriness of a Soutine
painting,

not the benign
sensation you feel
when reflecting
on bananas,

the monkey slouched
under palm leaves peeling
their yellow rind

or brown women draped
in rain forest silk
who balance the bunched fruit
on their heads
with... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3545 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:41:56 GMT <![CDATA[ The Woman Who Talked To Birds ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3544/t/The-Woman-Who-Talked-To-Birds.html Custody of the dog
was never an issue. She preferred
my husband and presented me
with a body turned water sprinkler
as she... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3544 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:40:22 GMT <![CDATA[ On Cape Ferret ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3543/t/On-Cape-Ferret.html (Southern Coast of France, Early September)

Tourists have vanished with Summer.
Only the ocean wind
walks the beach, her voice
a ferry that transports whispers
http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3543 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:37:48 GMT <![CDATA[ The Countryside Becomes Her ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3542/t/The-Countryside-Becomes-Her.html of prostitutes, from Athenian women
who draped their figures in slinky gauze
to courtesans of Vienna who sail
the streets in soft silk.

Yet, the country lifts this hue
to hedgerow birds who strike the leaves
with wings flickering
like matchstick flames
meant to catch someone's eye
and light the landscape with awe.

Meanwhile, the carriage house
offers its handsome view of this shade
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3542 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:34:03 GMT <![CDATA[ Bananas And A Glance Backwards ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3540/t/Bananas-And-A-Glance-Backwards.html
Seven days
passed and they hung
from a metal hook
with arched backs and freckled skin
invoking the savage
eeriness of a Soutine
painting,
not the benign
sensation you feel
when reflecting
on... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3540 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:38:59 GMT <![CDATA[ The Dove ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3535/t/The-Dove.html When the room is veiled
by afternoon's light
and age seems to fade
from its wood and silver,

she returns --- occasionally
remembering she has been
the wife and partner
of a great man.

Fingernails peck
at the drapery cord
while eyes land
on feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3535 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:15:13 GMT <![CDATA[ Stance ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3534/t/Stance.html
September's rain has left you standing
cool and graceful on the iron stairs.
They have become your balcony,
your place above the city streets
and her people who don't see
how a brown body stems upward
in a white dress, how it leans
long and striking into a mind
that flowers beneath the dusk
of soft hair and wall-side shadows.

Tonight, you silence the street lamps,
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3534 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:53:24 GMT <![CDATA[ Ghanaian ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3533/t/Ghanaian.html The women meet on a roof top
where the hotel has a cafe
catering to tourists and a humid breeze.
Three Americans hug Niuma
a Gold Coast girl
who shares their race, light clothing
and ancestors who were enslaved
in different ways.
After some wine, the watch bell
prounouncing it's late, they leave
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3533 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:25:17 GMT <![CDATA[ Essentials ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3485/t/Essentials.html
( A former Bedouin speaks out)

Needed - a rug woven by Moroccan hands
to be rolled out
expressing birds, branches
of the orange tree

and myself , a nude spice
who seasons the house
with long limbs and Lilith's hair.

A http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3485 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:33:33 GMT <![CDATA[ Sunday Evening ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3482/t/Sunday-Evening.html This is how we appear in the window
before the street lamp and tree;

woman sewing a button
on a shirt sleeve, man firmly holding her chair.

He knows its wooden leg
can wobble slightly and should be repaired;

but tonight, one partner will mend,
change a troublesome detail, nothing more.

The other will stand protective
of what he loves. Tools are hearthside... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3482 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:20:12 GMT <![CDATA[ Tea (Haute Couture) ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3474/t/Tea-Haute-Couture-.html
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... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3474 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:10:40 GMT <![CDATA[ The Lady's Maidservant ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3453/t/The-Lady-39-s-Maidservant.html The Lady's Maidservant
( With a nod to Oliver Goldsmith's heroine in the 18th Century play, She Stoops To Conquer.)
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Maiden... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3453 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:37:30 GMT <![CDATA[ Scenes Gathered From A Woman's Mind ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3446/t/Scenes-Gathered-From-A-Woman-s-Mind.html Scenes Gathered From a Woman's Mind
(Mary Shelley in three phases)
I
In A mountain Villa
( Mary describes the poet)
For three days, the rain lingers.
Its glass splinters fall
among the pines and pink geraniums.

The air feels harsh as wet shale
but my... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3446 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:48:04 GMT <![CDATA[ Until ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3430/t/Until.html Until

"...and when the night is new,
I'll be looking at the moon,
But I'll be seeing you
From the popular wordl war !! song
image

The farmhouse is cast in stone,
frost-chilled -- and the casement
window a weathered frame

that defines the shape
of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3430 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:15:08 GMT <![CDATA[ Estrangement ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3429/t/Estrangement.html (Somewhere in a foreign countryside, 1917}

There is no snow, but Winter
has come to this field laden
with twigs and blanched husks
of corn. The stalks beheaded.


A soldier stands looking
at the sky. Evening is still
a few hours south ---- the horizon
white as the tobacco silk
he pulls from his metal case.

The face... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3429 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:09:43 GMT <![CDATA[ Because I Do Not Stop For Life ]]> http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3406/t/Because-I-Do-Not-Stop-For-Life.html
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It would be too easy to say
the minutes have abducted me
like trolls who want the snow-pale
body of a princess.

I am blanched
from ducking the sun
and a slave to schedules.

At night, I wake from a short sleep
and hear the first train passing
after twelve , the second hours later
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Gwendrina) http://fromeasttowest.yuku.com/topic/3406 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:09:18 GMT