<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384048" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Song for the Rainy Season</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hidden, oh hidden <br>in the high fog <br>the house we live in, <br>beneath the magnetic rock, <br>rain-, rainbow-ridden, <br>where blood-black <br>bromelias, lichens, <br>owls, and the lint <br>of the waterfalls cling, <br>familiar, unbidden. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In a dim age <br>of water <br>the brook sings loud <br>from a rib cage <br>of giant fern; vapor <br>climbs up the thick growth <br>effortlessly, turns back, <br>holding them both, <br>house and rock, <br>in a private cloud. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">At night, on the roof, <br>blind drops crawl <br>and the ordinary brown <br>owl gives us proof <br>he can count: <br>five times--always five-- <br>he stamps and takes off <br>after the fat frogs that, <br>shrilling for love, <br>clamber and mount. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">House, open house <br>to the white dew <br>and the milk-white sunrise <br>kind to the eyes, <br>to membership <br>of silver fish, mouse, <br>bookworms, <br>big moths; with a wall <br>for the mildew's <br>ignorant map; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">darkened and tarnished <br>by the warm touch <br>of the warm breath, <br>maculate, cherished; <br>rejoice! For a later <br>era will differ. <br>(O difference that kills <br>or intimidates, much <br>of all our small shadowy <br>life!) Without water </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the great rock will stare <br>unmagnetized, bare, <br>no longer wearing <br>rainbows or rain, <br>the forgiving air <br>and the high fog gone; <br>the owls will move on <br>and the several <br>waterfalls shrivel <br>in the steady sun.</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=384048" data-title="Song for the Rainy Season de Elizabeth Bishop" data-description="Hidden, oh hidden in the high fog the house we live in, beneath the magnetic rock, rain-, rainbow-ridden, where blood-black bromelias, lichens, owls, and the lint of the waterfalls cling, familiar, unbidden. In a dim age of water the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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