Journal created:
on 2 January 2009 (#17795817)
Updated:
on 7 January 2016
Name:
sweetwatersong
Location:
United States
Website:
and the poppy-petalled metaphysics?
and the rain repeatedly spattering
its words and drilling them full
of apertures and birds?
I'll tell you all the news.
-Pablo Neruda, "I'm Explaining a Few Things"
Writer. Fan. Closet romantic.
And you'll ask: why doesn't his poetry
speak of dreams and leaves
and the great volcanoes of his native land?