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Ode to a Watch at Night by Pablo Neruda

September 09, 2020

At night, in your hand
My watch shone
Like a firefly.
I heard no ticking:
Like a dry rustling coming
from your invisible hand.
Then your hand
went back to my dark breast
to gather my sleep and its beat. MORE…

From Neruda: Selected Poems, Houghton Mifflin Press, 1990.

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Bishop Anthony Burton is the retired Bishop of Saskatchewan.

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