<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384044" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sandpiper</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The roaring alongside he takes for granted,<br>and that every so often the world is bound to shake.<br>He runs, he runs to the south, finical, awkward,<br>in a state of controlled panic, a student of Blake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The beach hisses like fat. On his left, a sheet<br>of interrupting water comes and goes<br>and glazes over his dark and brittle feet.<br>He runs, he runs straight through it, watching his toes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">- Watching, rather, the spaces of sand between them<br>where (no detail too small) the Atlantic drains<br>rapidly backwards and downwards. As he runs,<br>he stares at the dragging grains.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The world is a mist. And then the world is<br>minute and vast and clear. The tide<br>is higher or lower. He couldn't tell you which.<br>His beak is focussed; he is preoccupied,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">looking for something, something, something.<br>Poor bird, he is obsessed!<br>The millions of grains are black, white, tan, and gray<br>mixed with quartz grains, rose and amethyst.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Bishop">Elizabeth Bishop</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=384044" data-title="Sandpiper de Elizabeth Bishop" data-description="The roaring alongside he takes for granted, and that every so often the world is bound to shake. He runs, he runs to the south, finical, awkward, in a state of controlled panic, a student of Blake. The beach hisses like fat. On his left, a sheet ..."></div> </div> </div>

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