<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450081" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Vespers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In your extended absence, you permit me<br>use of earth, anticipating<br>some return on investment. I must report<br>failure in my assignment, principally<br>regarding the tomato plants.<br>I think I should not be encouraged to grow<br>tomatoes. Or, if I am, you should withhold<br>the heavy rains, the cold nights that come<br>so often here, while other regions get<br>twelve weeks of summer. All this<br>belongs to you: on the other hand,<br>I planted the seeds, I watched the first shoots<br>like wings tearing the soil, and it was my heart<br>broken by the blight, the black spot so quickly<br>multiplying in the rows. I doubt<br>you have a heart, in our understanding of<br>that term. You who do not discriminate<br>between the dead and the living, who are, in consequence,<br>immune to foreshadowing, you may not know<br>how much terror we bear, the spotted leaf,<br>the red leaves of the maple falling<br>even in August, in early darkness: I am responsible<br>for these vines.</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=450081" data-title="Vespers de Louise Gluck" data-description="In your extended absence, you permit me use of earth, anticipating some return on investment. I must report failure in my assignment, principally regarding the tomato plants. I think I should not be encouraged to grow tomatoes. Or, if I am, you sh..."></div> </div> </div>

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