<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368696" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In Break Formation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The indications used to come<br>like movie fighter planes in break<br>formation, one by one, the perfect<br>plummet, down and out. This time they’re<br>slower. But after supper, when I hear her <br>in the kitchen hum again, hum higher, <br>higher, till my ears are numb, <br>I remember how it was<br>the last time: how she hummed<br>to Aramaic peaks, flung<br>supper plates across the kitchen<br>till I brought her by the shoulders<br>humming to the chair.<br>I remember how the final days<br>her eyelids, operating on their own, <br>rose and fell, how she strolled<br>among the children, winding tractors, <br>hugging dolls, how finally<br>I phoned and had them come again, <br>how I walked behind them<br>as they took her by the shoulders, <br>house dress in the breeze, slowly<br>down the walk and to the curbing, <br>how I watched them bend her <br>in the back seat of the squad again, <br>how I watched them pull away<br>and heard again the parliament<br>of neighbors talking.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Donal+Mahoney">Donal Mahoney</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=368696" data-title="In Break Formation de Donal Mahoney" data-description="The indications used to come like movie fighter planes in break formation, one by one, the perfect plummet, down and out. This time they’re slower. But after supper, when I hear her in the kitchen hum again, hum higher, higher, till my ears ar..."></div> </div> </div>

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