<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=584320" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Writing The Book I Never Wrote(for Linda)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pocket notebook<br>full of poems</div><div style="margin:10px 0">written with a green</div><div style="margin:10px 0">fountain pen<br>(in purple ink) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">with a calligraphic flourish </div><div style="margin:10px 0">left out in<br>the storm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The words<br>run wild</div><div style="margin:10px 0">go native</div><div style="margin:10px 0">revert to being<br>just lines</div><div style="margin:10px 0">rivulets of words<br>tributaries of words</div><div style="margin:10px 0">all flow and whirl<br>into purple pools</div><div style="margin:10px 0">purple passages</div><div style="margin:10px 0">becoming watery<br>hieroglyphs</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a secret language</div><div style="margin:10px 0">made only of water and wind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now<br>the hot sun<br>of noon</div><div style="margin:10px 0">bakes the words<br>cakes the pages<br>'til they turn and curl</div><div style="margin:10px 0">leaving the book<br>in the position</div><div style="margin:10px 0">where words<br>have thrown off their clothes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and become<br>as naked as paintings</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the unmistakable brushstrokes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">of rain and sun</div><div style="margin:10px 0">translated into<br>their own native tongue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=D%C3%B3nall+Dempsey">Dónall Dempsey</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=584320" data-title="Writing The Book I Never Wrote(for Linda) de Dónall Dempsey" data-description="Pocket notebook full of poems written with a green fountain pen (in purple ink) with a calligraphic flourish left out in the storm. The words run wild go native revert to being just lines rivulets of words tributaries of words all flow ..."></div> </div> </div>

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