Ode To a Lemon

By Pablo Neruda

Delicate merchandise!
The harbors are big with it-
bazaars
for the light and the
barbarous gold.

We open
the halves
of a miracle,
and a clotting of acids
brims
into the starry
divisions:
creation's
original juices,
irreducible, changeless,
alive:
so the freshness lives on
in a
         l
        e
       m
       o
         n,
in the sweet-smelling house of the rind,
the proportions, arcane and acerb.

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