Red Fox Lara Gularte gave us this poem by Margaret Atwood to post. If youve never read a Margaret Atwood novel--The Handmaids Tale or Surfacing--or book of poems--Morning in the Burned House, you must! You simply must! THE MOMENT The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage you stand in the centre of your room, house, half-acre, square mile, island, country, knowing at last how you got there, and say, I own this, is the same moment when the trees unloose their soft arms from around you, the birds take back their language, the cliffs fissure and collapse, the air moves back from you like a wave and you cant breathe. No, they whisper. You own nothing. You were a visitor, time after time climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming. We never belonged to you. You never found us. It was always the other way round. ~Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. For more about Margaret Atwood, visit the Poetry Foundation @: poetryfoundation.org/bio/margaret-atwood
Posted on: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 18:38:56 +0000
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