<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=430962" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mermaid Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">for Aya at fifteen</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Damp-haired from the bath, you drape yourself <br>upside down across the sofa, reading, <br>one hand idly sunk into a bowl<br>of crackers, goldfish with smiles stamped on. <br>I think they are growing gills, swimming <br>up the sweet air to reach you. Small girl, <br>my slim miracle, they multiply.<br>In the black hours when I lie sleepless, <br>near drowning, dread-heavy, your face <br>is the bright lure I look for, love's hook <br>piercing me, hauling me cleanly up.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Kim+Addonizio">Kim Addonizio</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=430962" data-title="Mermaid Song de Kim Addonizio" data-description="for Aya at fifteen Damp-haired from the bath, you drape yourself upside down across the sofa, reading, one hand idly sunk into a bowl of crackers, goldfish with smiles stamped on. I think they are growing gills, swimming up the sweet air to r..."></div> </div> </div>

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