Chekhov's Mistress
I’ll See Your Chin and Raise You an Ear
Lauren posted a chin poem “My Boyfriend Kyle M” so I thought I’d post something, this delightful poem by Zbigniew Herbert is called “Rosy Ear”:
I thought
but I know her so well
we have been living together so many years
I know
her bird-like head
white arms
and belly
until one time
on a winter evening
she sat down beside me
and in the lamplight
falling from behind us
I saw a rosy ear
a comic petal of skin
a conch with living blood
inside it
I didn’t say anything then –
it would be good to write
a poem about a rosy ear
but not so that people would say
what a subject he chose
he’s trying to be eccentric
so that nobody even would smile
so that they would understand that I proclaim
a mystery
I didn’t say anything then
but that night when we were in bed together
delicately I essayed
the exotic taste
of a rosy ear
comments
OMG… GENIUS! best. meme. ever.
– Lauren Cerand (09/26 at 11:54 PM)
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