<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507806" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Home After Three Months Away</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gone now the baby's nurse,<br>a lioness who ruled the roost<br>and made the Mother cry.<br>She used to tie<br>gobbets of porkrind in bowknots of gauze--<br>three months they hung like soggy toast<br>on our eight foot magnolia tree,<br>and helped the English sparrows<br>weather a Boston winter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Three months, three months! <br>Is Richard now himself again?<br>Dimpled with exaltation,<br>my daughter holds her levee in the tub.<br>Our noses rub,<br>each of us pats a stringy lock of hair--<br>they tell me nothing's gone.<br>Though I am forty-one,<br>not forty now, the time I put away<br>was child's play. After thirteen weeks<br>my child still dabs her cheeks<br>to start me shaving. When<br>we dress her in her sky-blue corduroy,<br>she changes to a boy,<br>and floats my shaving brush<br>and washcloth in the flush. . . .<br>Dearest I cannot loiter hre<br>in lather like a polar bear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Recuperating, I neither spin nor toil.<br>Three stories down below,<br>a choreman tends our coffin's length of soil,<br>and seven horizontal tulips blow.<br>Just twelve months ago,<br>these flowers were pedigreed<br>imported Dutchmen; no no one need<br>distinguish them from weed.<br>Bushed by the late spring snow,<br>they cannot meet<br>another year's snowballing enervation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I keep no rank nor station.<br>Cured, I am frizzled, stale and small.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Lowell">Robert Lowell</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=507806" data-title="Home After Three Months Away de Robert Lowell" data-description="Gone now the baby's nurse, a lioness who ruled the roost and made the Mother cry. She used to tie gobbets of porkrind in bowknots of gauze-- three months they hung like soggy toast on our eight foot magnolia tree, and helped the English sparrows w..."></div> </div> </div>

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