<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=395306" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lastness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A black bear sits alone<br>in the twilight, nodding from side<br>to side, turning slowly around and around<br>on himself, scuffing the four-footed<br>circle into the earth. He sniffs the sweat<br>in the breeze, he understands<br>a creature, a death-creature,<br>watches from the fringe of the trees,<br>finally he understands<br>I am no longer here, he himself<br>from the fringe of the trees watches<br>a black bear<br>get up, eat a few flowers, trudge away,<br>all his fur glistening<br>in the rain.<br> <br>And what glistening! Sancho Fergus,<br>my boychild, had such great shoulders,<br>when he was born his head<br>came out, the rest of him stuck. And he opened<br>his eyes: his head out there all alone<br>in the room, he squinted with pained,<br>barely unglued eyes at the ninth-month's<br>blood splashing beneath him<br>on the floor. And almost<br>smiled, I thought, almost forgave it all in advance.<br> <br>When he came wholly forth<br>I took him up in my hands and bent<br>over and smelled<br>the black, glistening fur<br>of his head, as empty space<br>must have bent<br>over the newborn planet<br>and smelled the grasslands and the ferns.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Galway+Kinnell">Galway Kinnell</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=395306" data-title="Lastness de Galway Kinnell" data-description="A black bear sits alone in the twilight, nodding from side to side, turning slowly around and around on himself, scuffing the four-footed circle into the earth. He sniffs the sweat in the breeze, he understands a creature, a death-creature, watche..."></div> </div> </div>

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