<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354065" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Testimony Of Light</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our life is a fire dampened, or a fire shut up in stone.<br> --Jacob Boehme, De Incarnatione Verbi</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Outside everything visible and invisible a blazing maple.<br>Daybreak: a seam at the curve of the world. The trousered legs of the women<br> shimmered.<br>They held their arms in front of them like ghosts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The coal bones of the house clinked in a kimono of smoke.<br>An attention hovered over the dream where the world had been.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For if Hiroshima in the morning, after the bomb has fallen,<br> is like a dream, one must ask whose dream it is. {1}</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Must understand how not to speak would carry it with us.<br>With bones put into rice bowls.<br>While the baby crawled over its dead mother seeking milk.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Muga-muchu {2}: without self, without center. Thrown up in the sky by a wind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The way back is lost, the one obsession.<br>The worst is over.<br>The worst is yet to come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1--...is the question asked by Peter Schwenger in Letter Bomb. <br> Nuclear Holocaust and the Exploding Word.<br>2--...is from Robert Jay Lifton's Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Carolyn+Forch%C3%A9">Carolyn Forché</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=354065" data-title="The Testimony Of Light de Carolyn Forché" data-description="Our life is a fire dampened, or a fire shut up in stone. --Jacob Boehme, De Incarnatione Verbi Outside everything visible and invisible a blazing maple. Daybreak: a seam at the curve of the world. The trousered legs of the women shimmered. The..."></div> </div> </div>

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