<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=458378" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cardinal Ideograms</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A mouth. Can blow or breathe,<br>be a funnel, or Hello.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A grass blade or a cut.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A question seated. And a proud<br>bird's neck.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shallow mitten for two-fingered hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Three-cornered hut<br>on one stilt. Sometimes built<br>so the roof gapes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A policeman. Polite.<br>Wearing visored cap.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O unrolling,<br>tape of ambiguous length<br>on which is written the mystery<br>of everything curly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A step,<br>detached from its stair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The universe in diagram:<br>A cosmic hourglass.<br>(Note enigmatic shape,<br>absence of any value of origin,<br>how end overlaps beginning.)<br>Unknotted like a shoelace<br>and whipped back and forth,<br>can serve as a model of time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lorgnette for the right eye.<br>In England or if you are Alice<br>the stem is on the left.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A grass blade or a cut<br>companioned by a mouth.<br>Open? Open. Shut? Shut.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=May+Swenson">May Swenson</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=458378" data-title="Cardinal Ideograms de May Swenson" data-description="A mouth. Can blow or breathe, be a funnel, or Hello. A grass blade or a cut. A question seated. And a proud bird's neck. Shallow mitten for two-fingered hand. Three-cornered hut on one stilt. Sometimes built so the roof gapes. A policeman. Po..."></div> </div> </div>

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