<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=570526" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Restoration Ode</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Restoration Ode </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What tends toward orbit and return, <br>comets and melodies, robins and trash trucks <br>restore us. What would be an arrow, a dove <br>to pierce our hearts restore us. Restore us </div><div style="margin:10px 0">minutes clustered like nursing baby bats <br>and minutes that are shards of glass. Mountains <br>that are vapor, mice living in cathedrals, <br>and the heft and lightness of snow restore us. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">One hope inside dread, 'Oh what the hell' <br>inside 'I can't' like a pearl inside a cake <br>of soap, love in lust in loss, and the tub <br>filled with dirt in the backyard restore us. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sunflowers, let me wait, let me please <br>see the bridge again from my smacked-up <br>desk on Euclid, jog by the Black Angel <br>without begging, dream without thrashing. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let us be quick and accurate with the knife <br>and everything that dashes restore us, <br>salmon, shadows buzzing in the wind, <br>wren trapped in the atrium, and all </div><div style="margin:10px 0">that stills at last, my friend's cat, <br>a pile of leaves after much practice, <br>and ash beneath the grate, last ember <br>winked shut restore us. And the one who comes </div><div style="margin:10px 0">out from the back wiping his hands on a rag, <br>saying, 'Who knows, there might be a chance.' <br>And one more undestroyed, knocked-down nest <br>stitched with cellophane and dental floss, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">one more gift to gently shake <br>and one more guess and one more chance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sare+Gibbs">Sare Gibbs</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=570526" data-title="Restoration Ode de Sare Gibbs" data-description="Restoration Ode What tends toward orbit and return, comets and melodies, robins and trash trucks restore us. What would be an arrow, a dove to pierce our hearts restore us. Restore us minutes clustered like nursing baby bats and minutes th..."></div> </div> </div>

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