<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=417391" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>1975</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A boy asks his father to spiral a football over a tree<br>to arch it, so the ball will arrive an instant before the child.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The child dives. tendons extended, heart bucking<br>hands opening, to clutch what descends from the sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your mother left today for the institution. If the ball<br>hits ground, she dies. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That December afternoon the boy's mother passed away, <br>thirty-three times in the first hour.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each time he grabbed her head from the snow and<br>ran it back to his father, promised to do better<br>and he did, he ran hard, focused, dove.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I caught my mother's skull thirteen times in a row<br>and she's still not coming home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jeffrey+McDaniel">Jeffrey McDaniel</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=417391" data-title="1975 de Jeffrey McDaniel" data-description="A boy asks his father to spiral a football over a tree to arch it, so the ball will arrive an instant before the child. The child dives. tendons extended, heart bucking hands opening, to clutch what descends from the sky. Your mother left today ..."></div> </div> </div>

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