I love you a little more today than yesterday.

28 Jul 2010 Leave a Comment

by B in Soul

El Alfarero- Pablo Neruda Todo tu cuerpo tiene copa o dulzura destinada a mí. Cuando subo la mano encuentro en cada sitio una paloma que me buscaba, como si te hubieran, amor, hecho de arcilla para mis propias manos de alfarero. Tus rodillas, tus senos tu cintura faltan en mí como en el hueco de una tierra sedienta de la que desprendieron una forma, y juntos somos completos como un solo río, como una sola arena. The Potter – translated Your whole body holds a goblet or gentle sweetness destined for me. When I let my hand climb, in each place I find a dove that was looking for me, as if my love, they had made you out of clay for my very own potter’s hands. Your knees, your breasts, your waist are missing in me, like in the hollow of a thirsting earth where they relinquished a form, and together we are complete like one single river, like one single grain of sand. —Translated and © Mark Eisner 2004, from City Lights’ The Essential Neruda photo source unknown

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