Téssera (excerpt)
Nathalie Handal
I look at the way this silence
moves the streets,

the way we leave ourselves
in others,

the way our shadows
come back for more solitude,

the way death holds
death hostage

even when it begs
to walk down the lonesome road.

Maybe we need
to empty our souls

to find those
thinking of us

in memories we forgot,
maybe we will see

darkness healing
as ships land on pale shores,

or maybe we will fall into the sea,
forgetting that love

is a longer voyage
than life.
from the book VOLO / Diode Editions 
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Black-and-white news photograph of Pablo Neruda after being named 1971 Nobel Laureate
"Forensic Study Finds Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda Was Poisoned"  

"'We now know that there was no reason for the clostridium botulinum to have been there in his bones,' Reyes told the Spanish news agency Efe. 'What does that mean? It means Neruda was murdered through the intervention of state agents in 1973.'" 

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"I stood there at the glacier and felt deep below my feet the world moving and the ice dying. Glaciers melt from the bottom, and from within, as they creep along inexorably toward lower ground and, eventually, toward oceans and seas. How to write about such things? How can a small lyric poem begin to suggest the complexities of the subject and this place? I guess the answer is, how can we not try?"
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