Poem of the Week: “Rain,” by Claribel Alegria

Rain                                 ~ Claribel Alegria As the falling rain trickles among the stones memories come bubbling out. It’s as if the rain had pierced my temples. Streaming streaming chaotically come memories: the reedy voice of the servant telling me tales

Poem of the Week: Los Perdidos Del Bosque, by Pablo Neruda

The Lost Ones of the Forest / Los Perdidos Del Bosque by Pablo Neruda (English translation by William O’Daly)   The Lost Ones of the Forest   I am someone who never made it to the forest, one of those turned back by earth’s winter, headed off by lively scarabs ready to bite or by

Poem of the Week: “Keeping Quiet” by Pablo Neruda

Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. For once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any language; let’s stop for one second, and not move our arms so much. It would be an exotic moment without rush, without engines; we would all be together in a