<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351238" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Self(The Poet Pass&eacute;)Portrait</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">His task to watch an hourglass wash itself,<br>A ritual cleansing that leaves him bare,<br>Though no purification's new enough<br>To nullify the need for such labor--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prior soon to repeat, platonic clone,<br>He should have practiced that horizon<br>Vocation, camouflage, opening his<br>Arms wide the better to hide. But of course</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If the flesh is fire, bones are the kindling:<br>Still there but aching to be unbelied<br>By the lover, unbellied as breaths held<br>Until all the minutes fall to the wrong</div><div style="margin:10px 0">End of the hour and find his final<br>Efforts,ve faded, dated as (or like) a sundial.</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=351238" data-title="Self(The Poet Pass&eacute;)Portrait de Bill Knott" data-description="His task to watch an hourglass wash itself, A ritual cleansing that leaves him bare, Though no purification's new enough To nullify the need for such labor-- Prior soon to repeat, platonic clone, He should have practiced that horizon Vocation, ca..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black