<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460526" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0037 To, for, Sheila W.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This evening, I thought of you<br>after, how long, forty years: <br>you, sitting across the oak table<br>in the old forge's kitchen, that John had made<br>from salvaged shop fittings, <br>his sleeves rolled up, workmanly care<br>mixed on his face with amused dissatisfaction; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">you, looking across at me with a girlish joy<br>which, daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, <br>was always there – a girlish joy<br>that could hardly believe its luck<br>to find its understanding in another; <br>enthusiastic excitement rising like a blush; <br>then a little check of breath, as if<br>in company, courtesy required<br>it be controlled, or else<br>it would flood out and fill the room, <br>burst open the doors, out across the fields, <br>to seek out every other soul that welcomed it…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in such a moment shared, (it is as if) <br>one knows everything one needs to know<br>of earth; of heaven.</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=460526" data-title="0037 To, for, Sheila W. de Michael Shepherd" data-description="This evening, I thought of you after, how long, forty years: you, sitting across the oak table in the old forge's kitchen, that John had made from salvaged shop fittings, his sleeves rolled up, workmanly care mixed on his face with amused dissat..."></div> </div> </div>

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