<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351226" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lifeguard Clinging to a Steeple</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why are all the survivors of the needle's eye<br>nude, as if their lifethread had disrobed<br>rather than sewn them. Sans coat-fare,<br>we proceed it seems only to precede;<br>birth to burial, are not yet here.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when did we first start embracing<br>the wakes of ourselves in each other rather<br>than each other? As the fruit falls<br>to hiatus us, its bloom spoiled by last year's cores.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or the sun whose portrait rots in our pores,<br>those sweatbeads blurred in closeup but clear afar--<br>that pointillist pap, that hybrid suicide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The face carefully tattooed around love's wounds<br>does not itself look injured.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bill+Knott">Bill Knott</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351226" data-title="Lifeguard Clinging to a Steeple de Bill Knott" data-description="Why are all the survivors of the needle's eye nude, as if their lifethread had disrobed rather than sewn them. Sans coat-fare, we proceed it seems only to precede; birth to burial, are not yet here. But when did we first start embracing the wakes..."></div> </div> </div>

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