<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477968" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Dent</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In memory of Michael Allen</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The height of one stall at odds with the next in your grandfather's byre <br>where cattle allowed themselves to speak only at Yule<br>gave but little sense of why you taught us to admire<br>the capacity of a three-legged stool</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to take pretty much everything in its stride, <br>even the card-carrying Crow who let out a war-whoop<br>now your red pencil was poised above my calf-hide<br>manuscript like a graip above a groop.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The depth of a dent in the flank of your grandfather's cow<br>from his having leaned his brow<br>against it morning and night</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for twenty years of milking by hand<br>gave but little sense of how distant is the land<br>on which you had us set our sights.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Muldoon">Paul Muldoon</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=477968" data-title="A Dent de Paul Muldoon" data-description="In memory of Michael Allen The height of one stall at odds with the next in your grandfather's byre where cattle allowed themselves to speak only at Yule gave but little sense of why you taught us to admire the capacity of a three-legged stool ..."></div> </div> </div>

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