<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374855" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Today I am pulling on a green wool sweater <br>and walking across the park in a dusky snowfall. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The trees stand like twenty-seven prophets in a field, <br>each a station in a pilgrimage—silent, pondering. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blue flakes of light falling across their bodies <br>are the ciphers of a secret, an occultation. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I will examine their leaves as pages in a text <br>and consider the bookish pigeons, students of winter. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I will kneel on the track of a vanquished squirrel <br>and stare into a blank pond for the figure of Sophia. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I shall begin scouring the sky for signs <br>as if my whole future were constellated upon it. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I will walk home alone with the deep alone, <br>a disciple of shadows, in praise of the mysteries.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edward+Hirsch">Edward Hirsch</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=374855" data-title="I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic de Edward Hirsch" data-description="Today I am pulling on a green wool sweater and walking across the park in a dusky snowfall. The trees stand like twenty-seven prophets in a field, each a station in a pilgrimage—silent, pondering. Blue flakes of light falling across their ..."></div> </div> </div>

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