Wednesday, September 28, 2011

"I like for you to be still"

























I like for you to be still: it is as though you were absent,
and you hear me from far away and my voice does not
touch you.


From "I Like for You to Be Still" by Pablo Neruda, trans. by W.S. Merwin

Orient, Luis Ricardo Falero (1851-1896)

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