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The Potter


"The Potter"
By Pablo Neruda

Your whole body has
a fullness or a gentleness destined for me.

When I move my hand up
I find in each place a dove
that was seeking me, as
if they had, love, made you of clay
for my own potter's hands.

Your knees, your breasts,
your waist
are missing parts of me like the hollow
of a thirsty earth
from which they broke off
a form,
and together
we are complete like a single river,
like a single grain of sand.
 

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Login to find out (June 6, 2005 at 7:31pm)
Reminds me of the potter and pottery analogies sprinkled through Rumi, and I think it was the Rubaiyat I was thinking of. There, it's generally about fate and the relationship between human and Divine. Here, the analogy takes on a different hue. "Missing parts of me like the hollow of a thirsty earth from which they broke off".