<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=352634" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sudden Movements</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My father's head has become a mystery to him.<br>We finally have something in common.<br>When he moves his head his eyes <br>get big as roses filled <br>with the commotion of spring. <br>Not long ago he was a man <br>who had tomato soup for lunch <br>and dusted with the earnestness <br>of a gun fight. Now he's a man <br>who sits at the table trying to breathe <br>in tiny bites. When they told him <br>his spinal column is closing, I thought <br>of all the branches he's cut <br>with loppers and piled and burned <br>in the fall, the pinch of the blades <br>on the green and vital pulp. Surgeons <br>can fuse vertebrae, a welders art, <br>and scrape the ring through which <br>the soul-wires flow as a dentist <br>would clean your teeth. <br>And still it could happen, one turn <br>of his head toward a hummingbird, <br>wings keeping that brittle life <br>afloat, working hard against the fall, <br>and he might freeze in that pose <br>of astonishment, a man estranged <br>from the neck down, who can only share <br>with his body the silence <br>he's pawned on his children as love.</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=352634" data-title="Sudden Movements de Bob Hicok" data-description="My father's head has become a mystery to him. We finally have something in common. When he moves his head his eyes get big as roses filled with the commotion of spring. Not long ago he was a man who had tomato soup for lunch and dusted with t..."></div> </div> </div>

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