oh yum

[chelidon]

anthologie just posted a portion of Pablo Neruda's Sonnet XVII, the last line of which, in a somewhat ideosyncratic translation I haven't seen before, has to be one of the more luscious versions I've seen. And it manages to be viscerally earthy, delicate, and fiercely passionate with nothing more explicit than a kiss. All writers who speak of love can perhaps take a delicious clue here... Yum.

Because of you, the dense fragrance that rises from the earth lives in my body, rioting with hunger for the eternity of our victorious kisses.
--Neruda

[EDIT: the Neruda translation came from Rob Brezsny's astrology site, and what's more, it's from my horoscope -- synchronicity!]

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Re: Pablo

[cerr.livejournal.com]

Always a pleasure to share addictions.....you won't be sorry!