<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=560200" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>June 8th,2009 for Ezra, Wyatt and Kurt</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">three days before my first reading<br>I am out in the rain<br>the air: cool deep thick<br>I feel like<br>a bedbug<br>under a wet mattress<br> <br>the gray of the sky<br>wraps between the black boughs<br>then around the green leaves of the trees<br>that stand as sentry witnesses<br>in the corners of my yard<br> <br>June is indecisive<br>July knows what she wants<br>August sits pregnant in the heat<br>September shuts down like<br>a lover who's had one last fling<br>and despises herself for it.<br> <br>this is early June <br>this day's made it's decision<br>wet, damp, sullen<br>'so it goes, ' said the dead writer<br>'so it goes...'<br> <br>three days before my reading<br>I look to between the wet black branches<br>two mating squirrels are fighting<br>their squabble reminds me of my own<br> <br> <br>three days before my first reading...<br>I roll my poems through my head<br>walk across the yard to the shed<br>I wonder who<br>cleaned Auden's gutters<br>in the spring?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=R.+James+Sterzinger">R. James Sterzinger</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=560200" data-title="June 8th,2009 for Ezra, Wyatt and Kurt de R. James Sterzinger" data-description="three days before my first reading I am out in the rain the air: cool deep thick I feel like a bedbug under a wet mattress the gray of the sky wraps between the black boughs then around the green leaves of the trees that stand as sentry witnesse..."></div> </div> </div>

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