<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447958" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Blood Oranges</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In 1936, a child<br>in Hitler's Germany,<br>what did I know about the war in Spain?<br>Andalusia was a tango<br>on a wind-up gramophone,<br>Franco a hero's face in the paper.<br>No one told me about a poet<br>for whose sake I might have learned Spanish<br>bleeding to death on a barren hill.<br>All I knew of Spain<br>were those precious imported treats<br>we splurged on for Christmas.<br>I remember pulling the sections apart,<br>lining them up, sucking each one<br>slowly, so the red sweetness<br>would last and last --<br>while I was reading a poem<br>by a long-dead German poet<br>in which the woods stood safe<br>under the moon's milky eye<br>and the white fog in the meadows<br>aspired to become lighter than air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lisel+Mueller">Lisel Mueller</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=447958" data-title="Blood Oranges de Lisel Mueller" data-description="In 1936, a child in Hitler's Germany, what did I know about the war in Spain? Andalusia was a tango on a wind-up gramophone, Franco a hero's face in the paper. No one told me about a poet for whose sake I might have learned Spanish bleeding to dea..."></div> </div> </div>

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