<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450057" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nostos</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was an apple tree in the yard --<br>this would have been<br>forty years ago -- behind,<br>only meadows. Drifts<br>of crocus in the damp grass.<br>I stood at that window:<br>late April. Spring<br>flowers in the neighbor's yard.<br>How many times, really, did the tree<br>flower on my birthday,<br>the exact day, not<br>before, not after? Substitution<br>of the immutable<br>for the shifting, the evolving.<br>Substitution of the image<br>for relentless earth. What<br>do I know of this place,<br>the role of the tree for decades<br>taken by a bonsai, voices<br>rising from the tennis courts --<br>Fields. Smell of the tall grass, new cut.<br>As one expects of a lyric poet.<br>We look at the world once, in childhood.<br>The rest is memory.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Louise+Gluck">Louise Gluck</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=450057" data-title="Nostos de Louise Gluck" data-description="There was an apple tree in the yard -- this would have been forty years ago -- behind, only meadows. Drifts of crocus in the damp grass. I stood at that window: late April. Spring flowers in the neighbor's yard. How many times, really, did the tre..."></div> </div> </div>

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