<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384046" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sestina</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">September rain falls on the house.<br>In the failing light, the old grandmother<br>sits in the kitchen with the child<br>beside the Little Marvel Stove,<br>reading the jokes from the almanac,<br>laughing and talking to hide her tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She thinks that her equinoctial tears<br>and the rain that beats on the roof of the house <br>were both foretold by the almanac,<br>but only known to a grandmother.<br>The iron kettle sings on the stove.<br>She cuts some bread and says to the child,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's time for tea now; but the child<br>is watching the teakettle's small hard tears<br>dance like mad on the hot black stove,<br>the way the rain must dance on the house.<br>Tidying up, the old grandmother<br>hangs up the clever almanac</div><div style="margin:10px 0">on its string. Birdlike, the almanac<br>hovers half open above the child,<br>hovers above the old grandmother<br>and her teacup full of dark brown tears.<br>She shivers and says she thinks the house<br>feels chilly, and puts more wood in the stove.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was to be, says the Marvel Stove.<br>I know what I know, says the almanac.<br>With crayons the child draws a rigid house<br>and a winding pathway. Then the child<br>puts in a man with buttons like tears<br>and shows it proudly to the grandmother.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But secretly, while the grandmother<br>busies herself about the stove,<br>the little moons fall down like tears<br>from between the pages of the almanac<br>into the flower bed the child<br>has carefully placed in the front of the house.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time to plant tears, says the almanac.<br>The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove<br>and the child draws another inscrutable house.</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=384046" data-title="Sestina de Elizabeth Bishop" data-description="September rain falls on the house. In the failing light, the old grandmother sits in the kitchen with the child beside the Little Marvel Stove, reading the jokes from the almanac, laughing and talking to hide her tears. She thinks that her equino..."></div> </div> </div>

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