We open the halves of a miracle, and a clotting of acids brims into th…

Pablo Neruda
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We open the halves of a miracle, and a clotting of acids brims into the starry divisions: creation's original juices, irreducible, changeless, alive: so the freshness lives on ✨ Pablo Neruda (1961). Selected Poems, p.235, Grove Press
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We open the halves of a miracle, and a clotting of acids brims into the starry divisions: creation's original juices, irreducible, changeless, alive: so the freshness lives on ✨ Pablo Neruda (1961). Selected Poems, p.235, Grove Press

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