<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452621" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Toad Dreams</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">That afternoon the dream of the toads <br>rang through the elms by Little River<br>and affected the thoughts of men, <br>though they were not conscious that <br>they heard it.--Henry Thoreau </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The dream of toads: we rarely <br>credit what we consider lesser <br>life with emotions big as ours, <br>but we are easily distracted, <br>abstracted. People sit nibbling <br>before television's flicker watching <br>ghosts chase balls and each other <br>while the skunk is out risking grisly <br>death to cross the highway to mate; <br>while the fox scales the wire fence <br>where it knows the shotgun lurks <br>to taste the sweet blood of a hen. <br>Birds are greedy little bombs <br>bursting to give voice to appetite. <br>I had a cat who died of love.<br>Dogs trail their masters across con-<br>tinents. We are far too busy <br>to be starkly simple in passion. <br>We will never dream the intense <br>wet spring lust of the toads.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Marge+Piercy">Marge Piercy</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=452621" data-title="Toad Dreams de Marge Piercy" data-description="That afternoon the dream of the toads rang through the elms by Little River and affected the thoughts of men, though they were not conscious that they heard it.--Henry Thoreau The dream of toads: we rarely credit what we consider lesser li..."></div> </div> </div>

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