<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459965" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Robert Hass prose-poem impertinently versified</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hassless </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a summer week he watched her; <br>she watched him watching her. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He wrote his music; thought of her, <br>sixtyish, Japanese; flat-breasted like a boy; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">she brushed her paintings; thought of him, <br>young, eyes like an untamed pony; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">he grew to love the discipline in her painting; <br>she loved straightway his wild indiscipline. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That warm night when, on her tidy, well-swept doorstep, <br>music yet unwritten met rice-paper yet to be inked, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">she told him of her mastectomy; <br>he looked her in the eye; held hands; and bid goodnight. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The blue bowl on his porch the morning after <br>full of rose-petals; underneath, dead bees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=459965" data-title="A Robert Hass prose-poem impertinently versified de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Hassless For a summer week he watched her; she watched him watching her. He wrote his music; thought of her, sixtyish, Japanese; flat-breasted like a boy; she brushed her paintings; thought of him, young, eyes like an untamed pony; he g..."></div> </div> </div>

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