<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355784" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Late Meditation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Night again, and I'm not impressed:<br>the blurred cedar, blowzy in her black dress,<br>the bat's manic acrobatics -- he tries too hard --<br>the hooligan raccoon routing in the brush,<br>and above all this the familiar, gaudy<br>glitter of the stars. Once I felt invited<br>to praise these things. Once I felt obliged.<br>Inviolable night, I said. Love's rustling curtain.<br>My hornbook, my slow ship to stow away on.<br>It took a long time to discover night<br>is a slate one writes on with the chalk<br>of desire. Look. The moon is thin as a dime.<br>It goes, and the sun comes up shrunken, low,<br>something to poke with a broom<br>and plunk, hissing, into a water bucket.<br>What I said, I'd like to take it back.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Chris+Forhan">Chris Forhan</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=355784" data-title="Late Meditation de Chris Forhan" data-description="Night again, and I'm not impressed: the blurred cedar, blowzy in her black dress, the bat's manic acrobatics -- he tries too hard -- the hooligan raccoon routing in the brush, and above all this the familiar, gaudy glitter of the stars. Once I fel..."></div> </div> </div>

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