<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=427801" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Empire in Winter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love equals people times the square of the speed<br>of light.<br>If we but knew the way to split<br>our atoms of isolation, paradise<br>might be regained. Pipes are frozen under<br>the slow snow now. We sleep together mostly<br>to save our scanty firewood. Maybe need<br>will mother love's invention.<br>Doing without<br>is how we learn to do. The blizzard brings<br>neighbors together laughing at the store<br>as tumid pewter clouds let fall the seeds<br>of oblivion and renewal.<br>Should any find<br>these tattered words in the mud of the spring thaw,<br>carried by the spring flood, caught on the twigs<br>innocently greening, know words<br>came between<br>us, words tasted of apple, words blurred our vision,<br>built our empire, spread our cancer, words<br>troubled our sleep like sand, know words,<br>the curse of Babel, made the many out<br>of one, yet secretly as tendrils in<br>the soil these whispered affirmations still<br>convey the spirit back to one again.<br>Signed, one<br>(lost under snow)<br>who found words husked<br>of his name could winter well<br>and bear the light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Judson+Jerome">Judson Jerome</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=427801" data-title="Empire in Winter de Judson Jerome" data-description="Love equals people times the square of the speed of light. If we but knew the way to split our atoms of isolation, paradise might be regained. Pipes are frozen under the slow snow now. We sleep together mostly to save our scanty firewood. Maybe ne..."></div> </div> </div>

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