Pablo Neruda: Ode To Wine

Pablo Neruda: Ode To Wine Pablo Neruda: Ode To Wine Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth, wine, smooth as a golden sword, soft as lascivious velvet, wine, spiral-seashelled and full of wonder, amorous, marine; never has one goblet …

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Pablo Neruda: Ode To Sadness

Pablo Neruda: Ode To Sadness Pablo Neruda: Ode To Sadness Sadness, scarab with seven crippled feet, spiderweb egg, scramble-brained rat, bitch’s skeleton: No entry here. Don’t come in. Go away. Go back south with your umbrella, go back north with your serpent’s teeth. A poet lives here. No sadness may …

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Pablo Neruda: Ode To The Book

Pablo Neruda: Ode To The Book Pablo Neruda: Ode To The Book When I close a book I open life. I hear faltering cries among harbours. Copper ignots slide down sand-pits to Tocopilla. Night time. Among the islands our ocean throbs with fish, touches the feet, the thighs, the chalk …

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Pablo Neruda: Here I Love You

Pablo Neruda: Here I Love You Pablo Neruda: Here I Love You Here I love you. In the dark pines the wind disentangles itself. The moon glows like phosphorous on the vagrant waters. Days, all one kind, go chasing each other. The snow unfurls in dancing figures. A silver gull …

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Pablo Neruda: Walking Around

Pablo Neruda: Walking Around Pablo Neruda: Walking Around It so happens I am sick of being a man. And it happens that I walk into tailorshops and movie houses dried up, waterproof, like a swan made of felt steering my way in a water of wombs and ashes. The smell …

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