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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476595" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gnats In The Sunset</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gnats in the sunset, <br> drunk on the light, <br> women like comets and vapour trails everywhere <br>flaring across a skullful of sky<br> like the omens of a toppled throne, <br> like the inspired slashes of a mad painter, <br>the deathbed confessions of an expired mirror, <br> but no planet with the blue rose <br> of a sustainable atmosphere in sight, <br>nothing worth naming, no heart <br> that isn't the black hole of an eclipsed pearl <br> mired in stars like quicksand.<br>So many the gate to a garden they'll never enter.<br> So many waiting for the mountain <br>to circle the burning cloud, so many <br>choking to death on their half of the wishbone<br> that got caught in their throats like a harp<br> they once tore apart <br>like the crescents of the moon<br> going off like mutually aimed triggers. <br> This one smiles like a birdnet <br>hunting swans on the moon, <br> and this one bruised her lily into a brass trumpet <br> to announce the doom <br>of the last days of her Vesuvian lover, <br> and there are glass shadows of women <br> splintering everywhere like the uncandled chandeliers <br>of a black ice storm, and women with eyes <br> like sad olives trying to root in Antarctica, <br> and scorpions tattooing their own hearts <br>with hate literature <br> and lethal mushrooms, angels of death <br> who suddenly come up in the night <br>and tempt you to page like oxygen <br> through the first draft of their gills, <br> idling like the thresholds of an hallucinogenic sea, <br>for you to slip into an abyss of agony and longing<br>like the lost voice of a radioactive love-letter<br> in a readdressed envelope.<br>Better to be an empty boat <br> unmoored like a ghost from the moon <br> than snag your blood <br>on the thorn of the weeping nightrose <br> shedding like eyelids and forbidden keys<br> in the secret doorways of her open wound.<br>You'll end up trying <br> to paste your life together <br> in an abandoned embassy<br>that's lost its diplomatic immunity <br> from the petals of the infinite sentence<br> in the bridal orchard <br>denuded like a blizzard in a wastebasket<br> shadowing the moon penumbrally <br> as she puts you through her phases<br>like a sky encoded with stars in a paper-shredder.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Patrick+White">Patrick White</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=476595" data-title="Gnats In The Sunset de Patrick White" data-description="Gnats in the sunset, drunk on the light, women like comets and vapour trails everywhere flaring across a skullful of sky like the omens of a toppled throne, like the inspired slashes of a mad painter, the deathbed confessions of an expi..."></div> </div> </div>
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