<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538781" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Small Room In Aspen</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stains on the casements, <br>dustmotes, spiderless webs. <br>No chairs, and a man waking up, <br>or he's falling asleep </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many first novels begin <br>with the hero waking up, <br>which saves their authors <br>from writing well about sleep. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">His life is the only novel <br>about him. Mornings <br>he walks past the park: <br>Tai Ch'i students practicing </div><div style="margin:10px 0">like slow lorises. <br>A room on the second floor. <br>He'd dreamed of a ground floor <br>room, an insistent cat </div><div style="margin:10px 0">at the door, its mouth pink <br>with wrath he couldn't salve <br>and grew to hate. All afternoon <br>he's a cloud that can't rain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's no ordinary life <br>in a resort town, he thinks, <br>though he's wrong: it laces <br>through the silt of tourists </div><div style="margin:10px 0">like worm life. At dusk <br>the light rises in his room. <br>A beautiful day, all laziness <br>and surface, true without </div><div style="margin:10px 0">translation. Wherever I go <br>I'm at home, he thinks, <br>smug and scared both, <br>fierce as a secret, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">8,ooo feet above sea level. <br>The dark on its way down <br>has passed him, so he seems <br>to be rising, after the risen </div><div style="margin:10px 0">light, as if he were to keep watch <br>while the dark sleeps, <br>as if he and it were each <br>other's future and children.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Matthews">William Matthews</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=538781" data-title="A Small Room In Aspen de William Matthews" data-description="Stains on the casements, dustmotes, spiderless webs. No chairs, and a man waking up, or he's falling asleep Many first novels begin with the hero waking up, which saves their authors from writing well about sleep. His life is the only no..."></div> </div> </div>

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