as you desire, and you send it where you will.
Aim my road on your bow of hope
and in a frenzy I will free my flock of arrows.
- Pablo Neruda, "Ah Vastness of Pines"
My friend Joyce introduced me to Neruda more than five years ago, and I finally sat down with a thin volune of his love poems (and one song of despair) on the subway this morning.
Reading Neruda is like having someone tar and feather you but with rose petals and nectar, then roll you over the edge of a cliff because they want to show you how the sun sets in the most beautiful valley they've ever seen, and as you're appreciating this breathtaking light show on the western horizon, you're also in a screaming free fall towards an uncertain fate, until you land on a bed of cacti and every needle pierces you with an intense pain that you recognize as beauty and truth accosting your soul, and despite being so intoxicated by the ambrosia of your rose petal garment and the plummeting spill you just took, you know that everything that has ever permeated your senses this profoundly is proof that you are deeply alive, thanks to being told a bunch of old secrets left to the world by a dead Chilean poet.
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