<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389875" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Good Carpenters</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I mourn a dead friend, like myself, a good carpenter.<br>-Pablo Neruda about César Vallejo</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I looked at the book.<br>'It will stand,' I thought.<br>Not a palace<br>built by a newspaper czar,<br>nor a mud hovel<br>that the sea will soften,<br>but a good house of words<br>near the sea<br>with everything plumb.<br>That is the most I can ask.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have cut the wood myself<br>from my own forests,<br>I have sanded it smooth<br>with the grain.<br>I have left knotholes<br>for the muse to whistle through<br>-old siren that she is.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At least the roof does not leak.<br>& the fireplace is small<br>but it draws.<br>The wind whips the house<br>but it stands.<br>& the waves lick<br>the pilings<br>with their tongues<br>but at least they do not suck me<br>out to sea.<br>The sea is wordless<br>but it tries to talk to us.<br>We carpenters are also translators.<br>We build with sounds, with whispers & with wind.<br>We try to speak the language of the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We want to build to last<br>yet change forever.<br>We want to be as endless as the sea.<br>& yet she mocks us<br>with her barnacle & rust stains;<br>she tells us what we build will also fall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our words are grains of sand,<br>our walls are wood,<br>our windowpanes are sprayed with solemn salt.<br>We whisper, as we build, 'Forever please,'<br>-by which we mean at least for thirty years.</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=389875" data-title="Good Carpenters de Erica Jong" data-description="I mourn a dead friend, like myself, a good carpenter. -Pablo Neruda about César Vallejo I looked at the book. 'It will stand,' I thought. Not a palace built by a newspaper czar, nor a mud hovel that the sea will soften, but a good house of words..."></div> </div> </div>

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