It's time to move on to the penultimate poem in my 3+1 Things memorization project. The Mark Strand for July and August was just right for the end of summer and feeling a little sad, but the September/October poem I picked doesn't feel as appropriate.
Should I change poems to the Galway Kinnel I posted in June? To this? (That might be too sad, actually.) Or should I stick with the plan so I have at least one happier poem under my belt?
Here it is, if you want to help me decide:
Sonnet C, from 100 Love Sonnets, Pablo Neruda
In the center of the earth I will push aside
the emeralds so that I can see you--
you like an amanuensis, with a pen
of water, copying the green sprigs of plants.
What a world! What deep parsley!
What a ship sailing through the sweetness!
And you, maybe--and me, maybe--a topaz.
There'll be no more dissensions in the bells.
There won't be anything but all the fresh air,
apples carried on the wind,
the succulent book in the woods:
and there where the carnations breathe, we will begin
to make ourselves a clothing, something to last
through the eternity of a victorious kiss.
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Stick with the Neruda. I think it is both happier and qualitatively better than the Kinnel poem from June. The Levertov "Talking to Grief" is excellent, but very sad. Too sad I think. Yup, the Neruda pwns all.
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