<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448070" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cactus Seed</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Radiant notes piercing my narrow-chested room, beating down through my ceiling— smeared with unshapen belly-prints of dreams drifted out of old smokes— trillions of icily peltering notes out of just one canary, all grown to song as a plant to its stalk, from too long craning at a sky-light and a square of second-hand blue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Silvery-strident throat—<br> so assiduously serenading my brain,<br> flinching under<br> the glittering hail of your notes—<br> were you not safe behind… rats know what thickness of… plastered wall…<br> I might fathom<br> your golden delirium<br> with throttle of finger and thumb<br> shutting valve of bright song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> But if… away off… on a fork of grassed earth<br> socketing an inlet reach of blue water…<br> if canaries (do they sing out of cages?)<br> flung such luminous notes,<br> they would sink in the spirit…<br> lie germinal…<br> housed in the soul as a seed in the earth…<br> to break forth at spring with the crocuses into young smiles<br> on the mouth.<br> Or glancing off buoyantly,<br> radiate notes in one key<br> with the sparkle of rain-drops<br> on the petal of a cactus flower<br> focusing the just-out sun.<br>Cactus… why cactus? God… God… somewhere… away off… cactus flowers, star-yellow ray out of spiked green, and empties of sky roll you over and over like a mother her baby in long grass. And only the wind scandal-mongers with gum trees, pricking multiple leaves at his amazing story.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lola+Ridge">Lola Ridge</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=448070" data-title="Cactus Seed de Lola Ridge" data-description="Radiant notes piercing my narrow-chested room, beating down through my ceiling— smeared with unshapen belly-prints of dreams drifted out of old smokes— trillions of icily peltering notes out of just one canary, all grown to song as a plant to ..."></div> </div> </div>

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