<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360295" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>California Hills in August</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can imagine someone who found<br>these fields unbearable, who climbed<br>the hillside in the heat, cursing the dust,<br>cracking the brittle weeds underfoot,<br>wishing a few more trees for shade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An Easterner especially, who would scorn<br>the meagerness of summer, the dry<br>twisted shapes of black elm,<br>scrub oak, and chaparral, a landscape<br>August has already drained of green.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One who would hurry over the clinging<br>thistle, foxtail, golden poppy,<br>knowing everything was just a weed,<br>unable to conceive that these trees<br>and sparse brown bushes were alive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And hate the bright stillness of the noon<br>without wind, without motion.<br>the only other living thing<br>a hawk, hungry for prey, suspended<br>in the blinding, sunlit blue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet how gentle it seems to someone<br>raised in a landscape short of rain—<br>the skyline of a hill broken by no more<br>trees than one can count, the grass,<br>the empty sky, the wish for water.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dana+Gioia">Dana Gioia</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=360295" data-title="California Hills in August de Dana Gioia" data-description="I can imagine someone who found these fields unbearable, who climbed the hillside in the heat, cursing the dust, cracking the brittle weeds underfoot, wishing a few more trees for shade. An Easterner especially, who would scorn the meagerness of ..."></div> </div> </div>

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