<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389916" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Paper Chains</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The first snow of the year<br>& you lying between my breasts<br>in my husband's house<br>& the snow gently rising in my throat<br>like guilt,<br>& the windows frosted over<br>as if etched by acid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You have come from the desert<br>& have left a little sand<br>between my legs<br>where it rubs & rubs<br>& secretes a milky fluid,<br>finally a poem<br>or a pearl.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am your oyster shell,<br>your mother of pearl<br>gleaming like oil on water<br>for two hours on a snowy day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Poets fall in love to write about it!'<br>I said in my brittle way,<br>& told you about other loves to tempt you<br>& heard your siren songs of old affairs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I fall in love as a kind of research project.<br>You fall in love as some men go to war.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What tanks!<br>What bombs!<br>What storms of index cards!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am binding up your legs with carbon ribbon.<br>I tied you to the bed with paper chains.</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=389916" data-title="Paper Chains de Erica Jong" data-description="The first snow of the year & you lying between my breasts in my husband's house & the snow gently rising in my throat like guilt, & the windows frosted over as if etched by acid. You have come from the desert & have left a little sand between my ..."></div> </div> </div>

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