<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471331" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In The Basement Sleeps A Serpent</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">An apple<br>on her moiré red silk<br>sits daintily posed, <br>awaiting to be stripped<br>unto her porcelain<br>and in the perfect time<br>an apple can brew<br>the perfect intoxication<br>and piquant poison</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The keys<br>that we rummage for<br>and constantly hunts<br>like gilded silvers<br>with insufficient silhouettes, <br>sound, weight or sex<br>are the same keys<br>that shall unlatch<br>the doors it bolted</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The doves and crows<br>wear different cloaks, <br>guffaw different songs, <br>and their gusts rev <br>different noises<br>in different immensities<br>but in the firmament's height<br>they are no different<br>as they both escape in flight</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The stream, the ravine, <br>the moth, the hibiscus—<br>Everything suspended <br>in between the fences<br>of mad and holy<br>possess several floors<br>inveigling on the façade<br>but in every basement<br>sleeps a serpent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Norman+Santos">Norman Santos</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=471331" data-title="In The Basement Sleeps A Serpent de Norman Santos" data-description="An apple on her moiré red silk sits daintily posed, awaiting to be stripped unto her porcelain and in the perfect time an apple can brew the perfect intoxication and piquant poison The keys that we rummage for and constantly hunts like gilded s..."></div> </div> </div>

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