<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535612" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Leave Taking, After Matsuo Basho, Circa 1978</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'There is a blessed fidelity in things.<br>Graceless things grow lovely with good uses.' - John Tarrant </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Expecting more rain.<br>Not yet light though 6 a.m.-<br>night still over the barn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>From the porch, high wind. <br>The moon, a corner of it, <br>rides comfortably in clouds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Clouds moving over mountains, <br>their night work -<br>some rain in the buckets.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Bestowing order, <br>things feel their boundaries, <br>robes of autumn rain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Back to bed, <br>just-dawning. <br>Noises in these old walls -<br>mice search for food or string, <br>bird stretching its wings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Soon these things I must leave - <br>wood smoke, frayed rope coil, <br>finger prints on faded walls' wrong color.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br>Last flights -<br>on the sill <br>scattered wings, <br>musky corners' <br>gently waving webs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>A fertile shelter.<br>Many nights I have wrestled here.<br>Some mornings have<br>broken into me like thunder. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I have shed skin after skin.<br>These I leave behind.<br>Some warmth they may <br>provide for the mice, <br>rags for the moths to eat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Warren+Falcon">Warren Falcon</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=535612" data-title="Leave Taking, After Matsuo Basho, Circa 1978 de Warren Falcon" data-description="'There is a blessed fidelity in things. Graceless things grow lovely with good uses.' - John Tarrant Expecting more rain. Not yet light though 6 a.m.- night still over the barn. From the porch, high wind. The moon, a corner of it, rides com..."></div> </div> </div>

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