<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389932" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Still Life with Tulips</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because you did, I too arrange flowers,<br>Watching the pistils just like insolent tongues<br>And the hard, red flesh of the petals<br>Widening beneath my eyes. They move like the hands<br>Of clocks, seeming not to move except<br>When I turn my gaze; then savagely<br>In the white room, they billow and spread<br>Until their redness engulfs me utterly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mother, you are far away and claim<br>In mournful letters that I do not need you;<br>Yet here in this sunny room, your tulips<br>Devour me, sucking hungrily<br>My watery nourishment, filling my house<br>Like a presence, like an enemy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Geared to your intervals as the small hand<br>Of a clock repeats the larger, I,<br>Your too-faithful daughter, still drag behind you,<br>Turning in the same slow circles.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Across the years and distances, my hands<br>Among these fierce, red blossoms repeat<br>Your gestures. I hope my daughter never writes:<br>'Because you did, I too arrange flowers.'</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=389932" data-title="Still Life with Tulips de Erica Jong" data-description="Because you did, I too arrange flowers, Watching the pistils just like insolent tongues And the hard, red flesh of the petals Widening beneath my eyes. They move like the hands Of clocks, seeming not to move except When I turn my gaze; then savage..."></div> </div> </div>

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