<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539354" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Atavism</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1<br>Sometimes in the open you look up<br>where birds go by, or just nothing,<br>and wait. A dim feeling comes <br>you were like this once, there was air,<br>and quiet; it was by a lake, or<br>maybe a river you were alert<br>as an otter and were suddenly born<br>like the evening star into wide<br>still worlds like this one you have found<br>again, for a moment, in the open.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>2<br>Something is being told in the woods: aisles of<br>shadow lead away; a branch waves;<br>a pencil of sunlight slowly travels its<br>path. A withheld presence almost<br>speaks, but then retreats, rustles<br>a patch of brush. You can feel<br>the centuries ripple generations<br>of wandering, discovering, being lost<br>and found, eating, dying, being born.<br>A walk through the forest strokes your fur,<br>the fur you no longer have. And your gaze<br>down a forest aisle is a strange, long<br>plunge, dark eyes looking for home.<br>For delicious minutes you can feel your whiskers<br>wider than your mind, away out over everything.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Stafford">William Stafford</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=539354" data-title="Atavism de William Stafford" data-description="1 Sometimes in the open you look up where birds go by, or just nothing, and wait. A dim feeling comes you were like this once, there was air, and quiet; it was by a lake, or maybe a river you were alert as an otter and were suddenly born like the..."></div> </div> </div>

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