<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=388925" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Stillness Wrapped, Unwrapped!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">stillness wrapped...<br>layers and layers of sound, <br>sound defined by color, sweat, <br>stink, breath, and desire...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i walk the great plains of night, <br>the hunter, and the hunted.<br>i kneel in the shadow of a star, <br>giving praise to the Great Mother! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">i am wings of bat, <br>the eyes of the great owl.<br>i am wolf urine on the grasses.<br>i am bark and bay and howl.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i am the flute of the whipporwill, <br>the shallow breathing of the mountain aroused.<br>the small black boy in Mississippi past, <br>staring hard at the walls of angry cant.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>i am the political prisoner, <br>the religious heretic.<br>i am the murderer repentent, <br>the one who kills him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i am the quiet drunk<br>alone at the corner table.<br>the book hidden in in coat<br>that cant stop the bullet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i am the old woman hungry<br>for a lovers touch...<br>i am the touch, the memory, <br>the coming and breaking.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i am the prodigal, the refugee, <br>the starving girl who gives<br>her last piece of bread<br>to her younger brother.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i am the stray dog, the abandoned house, <br>the fire, and the homeless man who died.<br>i am the grave, the gravedigger, <br>the preacher, and the epitaph....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i am nothing now....<br>but stillness unwarpped by time...<br>sound, color, sweat, stink, <br>breath, and desire....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ashes, and unplowed earth!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eric+Cockrell">Eric Cockrell</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=388925" data-title="Stillness Wrapped, Unwrapped! de Eric Cockrell" data-description="stillness wrapped... layers and layers of sound, sound defined by color, sweat, stink, breath, and desire... i walk the great plains of night, the hunter, and the hunted. i kneel in the shadow of a star, giving praise to the Great Mother! i..."></div> </div> </div>

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