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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476713" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>It's Good To Know</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's good to know you're there; <br> though the world is a diatribe <br> of waltzing trains and threshing razors, <br> <br>it's good to know <br> a door burns for me somewhere in the darkness, <br> a bell waits like a nipple of silence <br>and your blood waits like a language, <br> a rose of rain in a starfield, <br> that my mouth alone can say to the night <br>in a shudder of light that only the blind can hear, <br> sipping from a chalice of water<br> spiked with diamond nails.<br> <br>My heart flashes across the sky <br> and buries itself like a meteor <br> at the cornerstone of a sightless temple <br>pillared by faithless candles<br> that flirt with the shadows <br> of the fire in their eyes, <br>and I'm bridges beyond any way back the way I came, <br> my wake the scar of a vapour trail <br> in yesterday's cherry sunset, <br>and I still catch myself at my worst <br> whenever I'm good; <br> there's always a thread of blood on the water, <br>and a half-finished suicide note on the mirror<br> scrawled in manic lipstick, <br> and a gravestone <br>I carry around on my shoulders like a skull <br> that feels like the weight of the world, <br> and a child leftover from an ancient crib-death <br>that is often afraid of me, <br> and a ferocity of freedom <br> that thaws my deepest thoughts like chains, <br>and bleaches every feeling like a wound <br> in the antiseptic of the sun<br> that bites like a mystic arrow <br>that was feathered with a message<br> before I was born to find me; </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> but it's good to know <br>your fury and your gentleness, <br> the glow and heat of your chimneys and fireflies, <br> your altars of wind and smoke <br>spuming across the vastness of the solitude <br> like blood and chalk <br> and lines written after school<br>on the blackboard shale of my river skin<br> still trying to reform its way to the sea; </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> it's good to look at the moon <br>through your passionate windows<br> and taste the fragrant honey of your darkness <br> attuning the tines of my tongue<br>to a fork in the road of your body, <br> to the delta of an unknown civilization, <br> to the mystery of rivers entwined like serpents.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the vines of the words <br> that have sought me out <br> like blood vessels and burning bushes<br>and the blossoming fingers of someone<br> kneading a face <br>out of the huge volume, <br>the pure space of my unattainability: <br> <br> o you have said things to me<br> in ink and water and brandy and fire, <br>in night and moonlight and poppies and tears <br> that have made the hardest rocks <br> on the highest slopes <br>of my mountains and cloudy ladders bleed<br> to be opened like a harvest of love-letters in a bomb-shelter<br> by the tenderness of your knives again and again, <br>urgent with beauty and joy<br> to be overthrown<br> by the whisper of your voice in the valley<br>triggering this skyborn avalanche<br> of nocturnal thrones.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> And the bells turn into vases <br>and the vases into urns<br> and the urns back into the wombs <br> of a thousand terminal exiles<br>tolling like a heartbeat <br> with a passport and a threshold, <br> and though I am no longer <br>the leaf of hope <br> that aspired to rudder <br> the firestream of these volcanic transformations, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">it's good to drift awhile <br> in the dreamtime of this endless night<br> like recoverable salvage <br>among the lanterns of your searching lifeboats <br> and the reaping eyes <br> of your eloquent islands of light.</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=476713" data-title="It's Good To Know de Patrick White" data-description="It's good to know you're there; though the world is a diatribe of waltzing trains and threshing razors, it's good to know a door burns for me somewhere in the darkness, a bell waits like a nipple of silence and your blood waits like ..."></div> </div> </div>
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