<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=427789" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Killer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The day was clear as fire,<br>the birds sang frail as glass,<br>when thirsty I came to the creek<br>and fell by its side in the grass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My breast on the bright moss<br>and shower-embroidered weeks,<br>my lips to the live water<br>I saw him turn in the reeds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Black horror sprang from the dark<br>in a violent birth,<br>and through its cloth of grass<br>I felt the clutch of earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O beat him into the ground.<br>O strike him till he dies-<br>or else your life itself<br>drains through those colourless eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I struck again and again<br>Slender in black and red<br>he lies, and his icy glance<br>turns outward clear and dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But nimble my enemy<br>as water is, or wind.<br>He has slipped from his death aside<br>and vanished into my mind</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He has vanished whence he came,<br>my nimble enemy;<br>and the ants come out to the snake<br>and drink at his shallow eye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Judith+Wright">Judith Wright</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=427789" data-title="The Killer de Judith Wright" data-description="The day was clear as fire, the birds sang frail as glass, when thirsty I came to the creek and fell by its side in the grass. My breast on the bright moss and shower-embroidered weeks, my lips to the live water I saw him turn in the reeds. Black..."></div> </div> </div>

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