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I used to listen the bare feet splashing in the ship. And had a feeling of the faces darkened by hunger. My heart was a pendulum between her and the street.  I don’t know with what strength I freed myself from her eyes. I broke away from her arms. She was left clouding with tears her anguish, behind the rain and the glass. 

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Morning XXVII

(Poem #1263Morning XXVII

 Naked, you are simple as one of your hands,
 smooth, earthy, small, transparent, round:
 you have moon-lines, apple-pathways:
 naked, you are slender as a naked grain of wheat.

 Naked, you are blue as a night in Cuba;
 you have vines and stars in your hair;
 naked you are spacious and yellow
 as summer in a golden church.

 Naked, you are tiny as one of your nails -
 curved, subtle, rosy, till the day is born
 and you withdraw to the underground world,

 as if down a long tunnel of clothing and of chores:
 your clear light dims, gets dressed - drops its leaves -
 and becomes a naked hand again.

— Pablo Neruda