<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=518414" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Japanese-American Farmhouse, California, 1942</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Everything has been taken that anyone<br>thought worth taking. The stairs are tilted,<br>scattered with sycamore leaves curled<br>like ammonites in inland rock.<br>Wood shows through the paint on the frame<br>and the door is open--an empty room,<br>sunlight on the floor. All that is left<br>on the porch is the hollow cylinder<br>of an Albert's Quick Oats cardboard box<br>and a sewing machine. Its extraterrestrial<br>head is bowed, its scrolled neck<br>glistens. I was born, that day, near there,<br>in wartime, of ignorant people.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sharon+Olds">Sharon Olds</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=518414" data-title="Japanese-American Farmhouse, California, 1942 de Sharon Olds" data-description="Everything has been taken that anyone thought worth taking. The stairs are tilted, scattered with sycamore leaves curled like ammonites in inland rock. Wood shows through the paint on the frame and the door is open--an empty room, sunlight on the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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