<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=352627" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Learning to Swim</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At forty-eight, to be given water,<br>which is most of the world, given life<br>in water, which is most of me, given ease,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">which is most of what I lack, here, where walls<br>don’t part to my hands, is to be born<br>as of three weeks ago. Taking nothing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">from you, mother, or you, sky, or you,<br>mountain, that you wouldn’t take<br>if offered by the sea, any sea, or river,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">any river, or the pool, beside which<br>a woman sits who would save me<br>if I needed saving, in a red suit, as if flame</div><div style="margin:10px 0">is the color of emergency, as I do,<br>need saving, from solid things,<br>most of all, their dissolve.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bob+Hicok">Bob Hicok</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=352627" data-title="Learning to Swim de Bob Hicok" data-description="At forty-eight, to be given water, which is most of the world, given life in water, which is most of me, given ease, which is most of what I lack, here, where walls don’t part to my hands, is to be born as of three weeks ago. Taking nothing fr..."></div> </div> </div>

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