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BoneBone
Bond
Bend
Bent

You wish you were that deerYou wish you were that deer, to graze and crop
the grass and munch some more, and never say,
I wonder if I ate too much. You drop
ten pounds in winter, trying hard to stay

alive in rain and snow and cold. You move—
no tender grass—to evergreens. You taste
the woody things, the bark. You do not love
this winter forage; still, you would not waste

that mouthful—yellow spruce. You chew and chew
and swallow, chew again. Just yesterday
you saw the robins. In the frozen dew
you yank a blade. This patience is your way.

You jerk awake. Go back to work. No spring.
You chew that meaningless and woody thing.

make it, fix it, freeze itmake it, fix it, freeze it in a bell jar
high above the clouds

this fixing of all things
which contradicts
change, movement, creation

Tuesday you liked the idea
by Sunday you had second thoughts

two separate stories
two different outcomes
you try them out alternatively
and decide to stay
here and now

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Czesław Miłosz "wherever"

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Submitted on: December 2, 2011
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*partiallyHere Jan 27, 2012

good to not have "complete" convictions.
or so i see.

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~thesadstork Jan 27, 2012

only complete to those that perceive them to be

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~dark-debris Dec 17, 2011 Photographer

my grandmother just read a super-thick biography on milosz - I wish I new Polish well enough to read his work in the original language! ^.^

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~thesadstork Dec 17, 2011

me too

but i'm told that these translations I have are very good

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~zosiaq Dec 5, 2011

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*RichardLeach Dec 3, 2011 Professional Traditional Artist

the multiple paths through this - and the title could even mean "at evening" rather than "Eve" - make this compelling.

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~thesadstork Dec 3, 2011

interesting take on it

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*YourForgiveness Dec 2, 2011

To be honest... reading it over and over - found some personal meaning in between.

I think this quote could work here:
"There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words."
(Dostoesky)

However, nothing more is necessary.

The question is after all - is anything received? (better is)

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~thesadstork Dec 2, 2011

great quote and I think there is certainly enough left unsaid to give what's said every meaning

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