<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428491" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Geranium</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How can you stand it&mdash;looking at things?<br> For example, the geranium<br> <br>out on the patio, the single pink<br>blossom in the sun? Or stand the sunlight<br>moving through it, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">illuminating, holding the flower open like a high<br>clear note, an ecstatic<br>widening</div><div style="margin:10px 0">which arrives, arrives. What<br>do you dowith it? While the shrubs and the lowest<br>overhanging leaves</div><div style="margin:10px 0">lift slightly in the wind, the blossom</div><div style="margin:10px 0">doesn't move. It's the object<br>of affection, and this is how<br>it hurts you:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">by holding the note open&mdash;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Past the front of the apartment, traffic goes by:<br>one truck, then another</div><div style="margin:10px 0">comes on, disappears. And I have</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the blossom in my vision&mdash;<br> sunlight, like vision,<br>making clear the tiniest</div><div style="margin:10px 0">hidden veins. I don't know why<br>I should be here, alive</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and having to see this, this bright thing<br>living in time</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or have to see it later, at the end<br>of the afternoon, when the sun's </div><div style="margin:10px 0">lower, its light diagonal across the pot,<br> its light then pulling away<br>across the mossed brick</div><div style="margin:10px 0">like a wave, only slower,<br>slower. The blossom is still pink,<br>but no longer</div><div style="margin:10px 0">brilliant. I'll go back<br>into the kitchen. But you, are you stronger than I? Can you<br> stay in love with it? Make promises,<br> <br>marry it? Are you so sure<br>of your position in the world?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Kate+Northrop">Kate Northrop</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=428491" data-title="The Geranium de Kate Northrop" data-description="How can you stand it&mdash;looking at things? For example, the geranium out on the patio, the single pink blossom in the sun? Or stand the sunlight moving through it, illuminating, holding the flower open like a high clear note, an ecstatic w..."></div> </div> </div>

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