<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358535" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Amaryllis</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A flower needs to be this size<br>to conceal the winter window,<br>and this color, the red<br>of a Fiat with the top down,<br>to impress us, dull as we've grown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Months ago the gigantic onion of a bulb<br>half above the soil<br>stuck out its green tongue<br>and slowly, day by day,<br>the flower itself entered our world,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">closed, like hands that captured a moth,<br>then open, as eyes open,<br>and the amaryllis, seeing us,<br>was somehow undiscouraged.<br>It stands before us now</div><div style="margin:10px 0">as we eat our soup;<br>you pour a little of your drinking water<br>into its saucer, and a few crumbs<br>of fragrant earth fall<br>onto the tabletop.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Connie+Wanek">Connie Wanek</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=358535" data-title="Amaryllis de Connie Wanek" data-description="A flower needs to be this size to conceal the winter window, and this color, the red of a Fiat with the top down, to impress us, dull as we've grown. Months ago the gigantic onion of a bulb half above the soil stuck out its green tongue and slowl..."></div> </div> </div>

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