<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366741" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Woman on the Dump</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it peace,<br>Is it a philosopher’s honeymoon, one finds<br>On the dump?<br>—Wallace Stevens<br>Out of the cracks of cups and their handles, missing, <br>the leaves unceremoniously tossed, unread,<br>from a stubble of coffee ground ever more finely <br>into these hollowed grounds,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the first shift coaxes bulldozers to life,<br>sphinxes to tease the riddled rubble<br>into fresh pyramids of rot. A staleness warms enough <br>to waft round the lord of all purveyed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His to count the hauls past the yawning gates <br>of this New Giza into the Middle Kingdom’s <br>Late Intermediate Period. There, to purify, <br>to honor ourselves, we beg these offerings</div><div style="margin:10px 0">of refuse be cast out. To the archaeologist <br>of the far-flung future, enough evidence<br>in the inscriptions to identify most owners: <br>spells scratched on the backs of envelopes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to be read out before animal sacrifice,<br>the milk, ground meat, beer, and soap<br>joined in this hereafter with the feast’s remains. <br>Over tomatoes splitting their sides,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">over a teacup stained with roses <br>flattened into mosaic petal from petal, <br>earthmovers move a little mountain <br>and, having moved it, move on,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">overturning a diamond sprung from its ring, <br>glitter to a magpie’s covetous eye.<br>If the art of loneliness is landscape,<br>armload by carload of black-bagged leaves,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">landfill contours its likeness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Debora+Greger">Debora Greger</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=366741" data-title="A Woman on the Dump de Debora Greger" data-description="Is it peace, Is it a philosopher’s honeymoon, one finds On the dump? —Wallace Stevens Out of the cracks of cups and their handles, missing, the leaves unceremoniously tossed, unread, from a stubble of coffee ground ever more finely into thes..."></div> </div> </div>

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