<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=481216" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Woman At The Washington Zoo</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The saris go by me from the embassies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cloth from the moon. Cloth from another planet. <br>They look back at the leopard like the leopard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I. . . .<br> this print of mine, that has kept its color<br>Alive through so many cleanings; this dull null<br>Navy I wear to work, and wear from work, and so<br>To my bed, so to my grave, with no<br>Complaints, no comment: neither from my chief,<br>The Deputy Chief Assistant, nor his chief--<br>Only I complain. . . . this serviceable<br>Body that no sunlight dyes, no hand suffuses<br>But, dome-shadowed, withering among columns,<br>Wavy beneath fountains--small, far-off, shining<br>In the eyes of animals, these beings trapped<br>As I am trapped but not, themselves, the trap,<br>Aging, but without knowledge of their age,<br>Kept safe here, knowing not of death, for death--<br>Oh, bars of my own body, open, open!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The world goes by my cage and never sees me.<br>And there come not to me, as come to these,<br>The wild beasts, sparrows pecking the llamas' grain,<br>Pigeons settling on the bears' bread, buzzards<br>Tearing the meat the flies have clouded. . . .<br> Vulture,<br>When you come for the white rat that the foxes left, <br>Take off the red helmet of your head, the black<br>Wings that have shadowed me, and step to me as man:<br>The wild brother at whose feet the white wolves fawn,<br>To whose hand of power the great lioness<br>Stalks, purring. . . .<br> You know what I was,<br>You see what I am: change me, change me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Randall+Jarrell">Randall Jarrell</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=481216" data-title="The Woman At The Washington Zoo de Randall Jarrell" data-description="The saris go by me from the embassies. Cloth from the moon. Cloth from another planet. They look back at the leopard like the leopard. And I. . . . this print of mine, that has kept its color Alive through so many cleanings; this dull null Nav..."></div> </div> </div>

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