<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390075" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Georgic on Memory</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Make your daily monument the Ego,<br>use a masochist's epistemology<br>of shame and dog-eared certainty<br>that others less exacting might forgo.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If memory's an elephant, then feed<br>the animal. Resist revision: the stand<br>of feral raspberry, contraband<br>fruit the crows stole, ferrying seed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for miles ... No. It was a broken hedge,<br>not beautiful, sunlight tacking<br>its leafy gut in loose sutures. Lacking<br>imagination, you'll take the pledge</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to remember - not the sexy, new<br>idea of history, each moment<br>swamped in legend, liable to judgment<br>and erosion; still, an appealing view,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to draft our lives, a series of vignettes<br>where endings could be substituted -<br>your father, unconvoluted<br>by desire, not grown bonsai in regret,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the bedroom of blue flowers left intact.<br>The room was nearly dark, the streetlight<br>a sentinel at the white curtain, its night<br>face implicated. Do not retract</div><div style="margin:10px 0">this. Something did happen. You recall,<br>can feel a stumbling over wet ground,<br>the cave the needled branches made around<br>your body, the creature you couldn't console.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Erin+Belieu">Erin Belieu</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=390075" data-title="Georgic on Memory de Erin Belieu" data-description="Make your daily monument the Ego, use a masochist's epistemology of shame and dog-eared certainty that others less exacting might forgo. If memory's an elephant, then feed the animal. Resist revision: the stand of feral raspberry, contraband frui..."></div> </div> </div>

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