<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389836" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Aura</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sit in the black leather chair<br>meditating<br>on the plume of smoke that rises<br>in the air,<br>riffling the pages of my life<br>as if it were a book of poems,<br>flipping through<br>past & future.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I go back, back, back,<br>riding the plume of smoke,<br>I find I died<br>in childbirth in another life,<br>died by fire in the life before that,<br>died by water twice, or more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I pick out days<br>& relive them<br>as if I were trying on dresses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the future beckons,<br>I follow,<br>riding another plume of smoke,<br>feeling the barrier<br>between skin & air<br>evaporate,<br>& my body disappear<br>like the myth it is.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My cheeks burn against the air,<br>flaming where two elements collide<br>& intermingle<br>becoming one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh explosion at the body's edge!<br>I live on a ledge of time,<br>gazing<br>at the infinite.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Erica+Jong">Erica Jong</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=389836" data-title="Aura de Erica Jong" data-description="I sit in the black leather chair meditating on the plume of smoke that rises in the air, riffling the pages of my life as if it were a book of poems, flipping through past & future. If I go back, back, back, riding the plume of smoke, I find I di..."></div> </div> </div>

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