<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455386" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Bruise Of This</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The night I woke to find the sheets wet from you,<br>like a man cast up on the beach,<br>I hurried you off to the shower to cool you down,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">dressed you, the garments strict and awkward in my hands,<br>and got you into a taxi to the hospital,<br>the driver eyeing us from his rearview mirror--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The blue tone of the paging bell,<br>the green smocks, metal beds,<br>plastic chairs linked</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in a childhood diagram of infection,<br>and when they wheeled you by<br>there was a needle in your arm,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the bruise of this<br>already showing itself,<br>and rather than watch gloved doctors handle you</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in their startling white coats and loose ties,<br>I took a seat outside and waited,<br>time yawning, thick and static--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and made clear to me in the bright light of speculation<br>was time's obstacle in the body,<br>and those things I could do that might cushion it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mark+Wunderlich">Mark Wunderlich</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=455386" data-title="The Bruise Of This de Mark Wunderlich" data-description="The night I woke to find the sheets wet from you, like a man cast up on the beach, I hurried you off to the shower to cool you down, dressed you, the garments strict and awkward in my hands, and got you into a taxi to the hospital, the driver eye..."></div> </div> </div>

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