<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521669" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Eye Exam</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I Struggle.<br>The white dropper<br>looms like a bird's beak<br>a little too close<br>to my tender eyes, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">but finally the drops splash<br>over my eyelashes<br>my nose and cheeks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">First a sting<br>and then I feel<br>nothing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soon the quiet room<br>becomes immense and bright.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I gaze in wonder<br>as my hands grow<br>transparent, <br>throbbing veins turn to<br>blue rivers<br>coursing through pale ravines<br>of webbed bone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Vision grows deep<br>with dilation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The doctor peers<br>through my eyes, <br>looking past<br>murky vitreous, <br>right down to<br>my optic nerve, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and I wonder what she sees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A small hole torn into the retina, <br>just to the left<br>yes! that's where<br>lightning flashed before, <br>where<br>now lies blindness…<br>my own circle of night, <br>foreshadowing<br>Nothing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Steven+Federle">Steven Federle</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=521669" data-title="The Eye Exam de Steven Federle" data-description="I Struggle. The white dropper looms like a bird's beak a little too close to my tender eyes, but finally the drops splash over my eyelashes my nose and cheeks. First a sting and then I feel nothing. Soon the quiet room becomes immense and brig..."></div> </div> </div>

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