<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=542646" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Homecoming</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tanqui’s supreme conceit is its dread<br>Of withering grass in the month of the frogs<br>When rain, like fingers in the night, tread<br>The lesions gangrened on a hillock’s carrion, <br>Carcass of a season mourned<br>As the briefest of them all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“The rain is on the hill, the dry pond<br>Is red with clay, the gods are back! <br>And so must I - shadow of a past long gone -<br>Weeping, running through these deserted streets, <br>Crouching now in mud pools of childhood fun<br>When songs were chanted as songs for the dance.<br>A dance for the grass! My limbs for the grass! <br>I must dance for Tanqui’s singed grass! ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He dances hard, his body clean and gleaming, <br>But Tanqui’s rain is on the ashen hill.<br>Neither his dancing nor his lusty screaming<br>Will stop this dreaded withering.<br>Tanqui’s conceit is stranger still<br>When songs are sung not for her lads and lasses<br>But for this stranger who, dying, has come back<br>To dance for black grass, dance naked<br>For Tanqui’s withered pantheon grass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>June 2009</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Albert+B.+Casuga">Albert B. Casuga</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=542646" data-title="A Homecoming de Albert B. Casuga" data-description="Tanqui’s supreme conceit is its dread Of withering grass in the month of the frogs When rain, like fingers in the night, tread The lesions gangrened on a hillock’s carrion, Carcass of a season mourned As the briefest of them all. “The rain..."></div> </div> </div>

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