A Precise Woman
Yehuda Amichai 1924 (Würzburg) – 2000 (Israel)
A precise woman with a short haircut brings order
to my thoughts and my dresser drawers,
moves feelings around like furniture
into a new arrangement.
A woman whose body is cinched at the waist and firmly divided
into upper and lower,
with weather-forecast eyes
of shatterproof glass.
Even her cries of passion follow a certain order,
one after the other:
tame dove, then wild dove,
then peacock, wounded peacock, peacock, peacock,
the wild dove, tame dove, dove dove
thrush, thrush, thrush.
A precise woman: on the bedroom carpet her shoes always point away from the bed.
(My own shoes point toward it.)
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXAXXAXXAABXBX XX |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 591 |
Words | 104 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 2 |
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