Pablo Neruda, born on this day in 1904. Read his work at Poets.org.
responding to the shuttered heart. or this by Pablo Neruda.
from “The Essential Neruda, Selected Poems,” published by City Lights
Our friends at redpoppyart are hosting a Neruda celebration this Thursday, 7/10, in San Francisco. Check it out!
from Pablo Neruda’s Bestiary–illustrated by Antonio Frasconi and translated by Elsa Neuberger.
I have always been curious
about the erotic rabbit.
Who excited them and whispers
in their genital ears?
They procreate endlessly
and pay no attention to Saint Francis,
they hear no nonsense:
the rabbit mounts and remounts
with an inexhaustible organism.
I wish to speak with the rabbit,
I like his flighty habits.