<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447969" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>What The Dog Perhaps Hears</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If an inaudible whistle<br>blown between our lips<br>can send him home to us, <br>then silence is perhaps<br>the sound of spiders breathing<br>and roots mining the earth; <br>it may be asparagus heaving, <br>headfirst, into the light<br>and the long brown sound<br>of cracked cups, when it happens. <br>We would like to ask the dog<br>if there is a continuous whir<br>because the child in the house <br>keeps growing, if the snake<br>really stretches full length<br>without a click and the sun<br>breaks through clouds without<br>a decibel of effort, <br>whether in autumn, when the trees<br>dry up their wells, there isn't a shudder<br>too high for us to hear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What is it like up there<br>above the shut-off level<br>of our simple ears?<br>For us there was no birth cry,<br>the newborn bird is suddenly here, <br>the egg broken, the nest alive,<br>and we heard nothing when the world changed.</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=447969" data-title="What The Dog Perhaps Hears de Lisel Mueller" data-description="If an inaudible whistle blown between our lips can send him home to us, then silence is perhaps the sound of spiders breathing and roots mining the earth; it may be asparagus heaving, headfirst, into the light and the long brown sound of cracke..."></div> </div> </div>

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