<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368814" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode to a Dressmaker's Dummy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Papier-mache body; blue-and-black cotton jersey cover. Metal stand. Instructions included. <br>-- Sears, Roebuck Catalogue</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O my coy darling, still<br>You wear for me the scent<br>Of those long afternoons we spent,<br>The two of us together,<br>Safe in the attic from the jealous eyes<br>Of household spies<br>And the remote buffooneries of the weather;<br>So high,<br>Our sole remaining neighbor was the sky,<br>Which, often enough, at dusk,<br>Leaning its cloudy shoulders on the sill,<br>Used to regard us with a bored and cynical eye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How like the terrified,<br>Shy figure of a bride<br>You stood there then, without your clothes,<br>Drawn up into<br>So classic and so strict a pose<br>Almost, it seemed, our little attic grew<br>Dark with the first charmed night of the honeymoon.<br>Or was it only some obscure<br>Shape of my mother's youth I saw in you,<br>There where the rude shadows of the afternoon<br>Crept up your ankles and you stood<br>Hiding your sex as best you could?--<br>Prim ghost the evening light shone through.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Donald+Justice">Donald Justice</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=368814" data-title="Ode to a Dressmaker's Dummy de Donald Justice" data-description="Papier-mache body; blue-and-black cotton jersey cover. Metal stand. Instructions included. -- Sears, Roebuck Catalogue O my coy darling, still You wear for me the scent Of those long afternoons we spent, The two of us together, Safe in the attic..."></div> </div> </div>

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