<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431926" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In a Country</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My love and I are inventing a country, which we <br>can already see taking shape, as if wheels were <br>passing through yellow mud. But there is a prob-<br>lem: if we put a river in the country, it will thaw <br>and begin flooding. If we put the river on the bor-<br>der, there will be trouble. If we forget about the <br>river, there will be no way out. There is already a <br>sky over that country, waiting for clouds or smoke. <br>Birds have flown into it, too. Each evening more <br>trees fill with their eyes, and what they see we can <br>never erase.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One day it was snowing heavily, and again we were <br>lying in bed, watching our country: we could <br>make out the wide river for the first time, blue and <br>moving. We seemed to be getting closer; we saw <br>our wheel tracks leading into it and curving out <br>of sight behind us. It looked like the land we had <br>left, some smoke in the distance, but I wasn't sure. <br>There were birds calling. The creaking of our <br>wheels. And as we entered that country, it felt as if <br>someone was touching our bare shoulders, lightly, <br>for the last time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Larry+Levis">Larry Levis</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=431926" data-title="In a Country de Larry Levis" data-description="My love and I are inventing a country, which we can already see taking shape, as if wheels were passing through yellow mud. But there is a prob- lem: if we put a river in the country, it will thaw and begin flooding. If we put the river on the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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