<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=576428" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Garden Sleeper</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He slept for years out of doors<br>in a garden in London, his daytime<br>job, some sort of writer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I didn't know him, but my path<br>as a young typist must have crossed his: <br>not only a bright colleger</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but an abandoned lover, a philosopher, <br>a gardener without a garden<br>and a loafer in cafes rode to work with me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From my north London window also<br>came the peck of a typewriter, <br>above the tired lemon shrub trees</div><div style="margin:10px 0">hemmed in by dozing cats.<br>Trapped among statuary<br>lay summer-houses all year through.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He slept behind<br>the throng, the push of humankind, <br>the escalator pit, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the tall deaf buildings<br>connecting squares, <br>mind burrowing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in sentence-stretches, bits of maps<br>out of the libraries, museums, <br>much-loved bookshops.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leaves opened out<br>in a city of milllions.<br>We read each other now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A scrap in a plant-pot in my room<br>turned into a fuchsia.<br>Daisy-light shone by the railings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At last, we all saw our<br>fought-for survivals<br>unfold. Each road led to another.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We do not live in London<br>and I have a garden<br>I am too old to sleep in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">1990</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sally+Evans">Sally Evans</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=576428" data-title="The Garden Sleeper de Sally Evans" data-description="He slept for years out of doors in a garden in London, his daytime job, some sort of writer. I didn't know him, but my path as a young typist must have crossed his: not only a bright colleger but an abandoned lover, a philosopher, a gardener w..."></div> </div> </div>

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