Leaning Into The Afternoons - Pablo Neruda
Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets
towards your oceanic eyes.
There in the highest blaze my solitude lengthens and flames, its arms turning like a drowning man's.
I send out red signals across your absent eyes that smell like the sea or the beach by a lighthouse.
You keep only darkness, my distant female, from your regard sometimes the coast of dread emerges.
Leaning into the afternoons I fling my sad nets to that sea that is thrashed by your oceanic eyes.
The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you.
The night gallops on its shadowy mare shedding blue tassels over the land.
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