"LOS VERSOS DEL CAPITAN" a Isla Negra Travel Page by marsistanbul

There is no forgetting:SONATA

Ask me where have I been
and I'll tell you:"Things keep on happening."
I must talk of the rubble that darkens the clay;
of the river's duration'destroying itself;
I know only the things that the birds have abandoned,
or the ocean behind me'or my sorrowing sister.
Why the distinctions of place? Why should day
follow day? Why must the blackness
of nighttime collect in our mouths? Why the dead?

If you question me: where have you come fom'I must talk with
things falling away,
artifacts tart to taste'
great beast'always rotting away,
and my own inconsolable heart.

Pablo Neruda and his wife Matilde Urrutia are burried here...