<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389985" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>We Learned</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The decorum of fire...<br>-- Pablo Neruda</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We learned the decorum of fire,<br>the flame's curious symmetry,<br>the blue heat at the center of the thighs,<br>the flickering red of the hips,<br>& the tallow gold of the breasts<br>lit from within<br>by the lantern in the ribs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You tear yourself out of me<br>like a branch that longs to be grafted<br>onto a fruit tree,<br>peach & pear<br>crossed with each other,<br>fig & banana served on one plate,<br>the leaf & the luminous snail<br>that clings to it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We learned that the tearing<br>could be a joining,<br>that the fire's flickering<br>could be a kindling,<br>that the old decorum of love--<br>to die into the poem,<br>leaving the lover lonely with her pen--<br>was all an ancient lie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So we banished the evil eye:<br>you have to be unhappy to create;<br>you have to let love die before it writes;<br>you have to lose the joy to have the poem--<br>& we re-wrote our lives with fire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">See this manuscript covered<br>with flesh-colored words?<br>It was written in invisible ink<br>& held up to our flame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The words darkened on the page<br>as we sank into each other.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are ink & blood<br>& all things that make stains.<br>We turn each other golden as we turn,<br>browning each other's skins like suns.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hold me up to the light;<br>you will see poems.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hold me in the dark;<br>you will see light.</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=389985" data-title="We Learned de Erica Jong" data-description="The decorum of fire... -- Pablo Neruda We learned the decorum of fire, the flame's curious symmetry, the blue heat at the center of the thighs, the flickering red of the hips, & the tallow gold of the breasts lit from within by the lantern in the..."></div> </div> </div>

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