 Blackstone Audio presents Love Poems by Pablo Neruda Translated by Donald D. Walsh This book is read by Armando Duran In You, The Earth Little Rose, Roselet At times, tiny and naked it seems as though you would fit in one of my hands as though I'll clasp you like this and carry you to my mouth but suddenly my feet touch your feet and my mouth your lips You have grown Your shoulders rise like two hills, your breasts wander over my breast My arm scarcely manages to encircle the thin new moon-line of your waist In love, you have loosened yourself like sea water I can scarcely measure the sky's most spacious eyes and I lean down to your mouth to kiss the earth, the queen I have named you Queen There are taller ones than you, taller There are purer ones than you, purer There are lovelier than you, lovelier But you are the queen When you go through the streets no one recognizes you No one sees your crystal crown No one looks at the carpet of red gold that you tread as you pass the non-existent carpet And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body Bells shake the sky and a hymn fills the world Only you and I, only you and I, my love Listen to it, your feet When I cannot look at your face, I look at your feet Your feet of arched bone, your hard little feet I know that they support you And that your gentle weight rises upon them Your waist and your breasts The doubled purple of your nipples The sockets of your eyes that have just flown away Your wide, fruit mouth Your red tresses My little tower But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth And upon the wind and upon the waters Sample complete. Ready to continue?