<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539399" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Shadow Hand</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Duporte the roofer that calm voice <br>those sure hands gentling weathered tiles <br>into new generations or <br>half of him rising through a roof <br>like some sea spirit from a wave <br>to turn shaped slates into fish scales <br>that would swim in the rain Duporte <br>who seemed to smooth arguments by <br>listening and whom they sent for <br>when a bone was broken or when <br>they had a pig to kill because <br>of the way he did it only <br>yesterday after all these years <br>I learned that he had suddenly <br>gone blind while still in his sixties <br>and died soon after that while I <br>was away and I never knew <br>and it seemed as though it had just <br>happened and it had not been long <br>since we stood in the road talking <br>about owls nesting in chimneys <br>in the dark in empty houses</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>From 'The Shadow Of Sirius'<br>Publisher: Copper Canyon Press (September 1, 2008)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Stanley+Merwin">William Stanley Merwin</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=539399" data-title="Shadow Hand de William Stanley Merwin" data-description="Duporte the roofer that calm voice those sure hands gentling weathered tiles into new generations or half of him rising through a roof like some sea spirit from a wave to turn shaped slates into fish scales that would swim in the rain Duport..."></div> </div> </div>

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