<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389865" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>For an Earth-Landing</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">the sky sinks its blue teeth<br>into the mountains.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rising on pure will</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(the lurch & lift-off,<br>the sudden swing<br>into wide, white snow),</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I encourage the cable.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Past the wind<br>& crossed tips of my skis<br>& the mauve shadows of pines<br>& the spoor of bears<br>& deer,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I speak to my fear,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">rising, riding,<br>finding myself</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the only thing<br>between snow & sky,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the link<br>that holds it all together.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Halfway up the wire,<br>we stop,<br>slide back a little<br>(a whirr of pulleys).</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Astronauts circle above us today<br>in the television blue of space.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the thin withers of alps<br>are waiting to take us too,<br>& this might be the moon!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We move!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Friends, this is a toy<br>merely for reaching mountains</div><div style="margin:10px 0">merely<br>for skiing down.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">& now we're dangling<br>like charms on the same bracelet</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or upsidedown tightrope people<br>(a colossal circus!)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or absurd winged walkers,<br>angels in animal fur,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">with mittened hands waving<br>& fear turning</div><div style="margin:10px 0">& the mountain<br>like a fisherman,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">reeling us all in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So we land<br>on the windy peak,<br>touch skis to snow,<br>are married to our purple shadows,<br>& ski back down<br>to the unimaginable valley</div><div style="margin:10px 0">leaving no footprints.</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=389865" data-title="For an Earth-Landing de Erica Jong" data-description="the sky sinks its blue teeth into the mountains. Rising on pure will (the lurch & lift-off, the sudden swing into wide, white snow), I encourage the cable. Past the wind & crossed tips of my skis & the mauve shadows of pines & the spoor of bea..."></div> </div> </div>

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