<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389849" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Climbing You</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I want to understand the steep thing<br>that climbs ladders in your throat.<br>I can't make sense of you.<br>Everywhere I look you're there--<br>a vast landmark, a volcano<br>poking its head through the clouds,<br>Gulliver sprawled across Lilliput.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I climb into your eyes, looking.<br>The pupils are black painted stage flats.<br>They can be pulled down like window shades.<br>I switch on a light in your iris.<br>Your brain ticks like a bomb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In your offhand, mocking way<br>you've invited me into your chest.<br>Inside: the blur that poses as your heart.<br>I'm supposed to go in with a torch<br>or maybe hot water bottles<br>& defrost it by hand<br>as one defrosts an old refrigerator.<br>It will shudder & sigh<br>(the icebox to the insomniac).</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh there's nothing like love between us.<br>You're the mountain, I am climbing you.<br>If I fall, you won't be all to blame,<br>but you'll wait years maybe<br>for the next doomed expedition.</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=389849" data-title="Climbing You de Erica Jong" data-description="I want to understand the steep thing that climbs ladders in your throat. I can't make sense of you. Everywhere I look you're there-- a vast landmark, a volcano poking its head through the clouds, Gulliver sprawled across Lilliput. I climb into yo..."></div> </div> </div>

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