09.30.2009 12:57 pm
Benefit for St. Louis Poetry Center on Oct. 22
Post-Dispatch Book Editor
Onion,
luminous flask,
your beauty formed
petal by petal,
crystal scales expanded you
and in the secrecy of the dark earth
your belly grew round with dew. …
From Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to an Onion”
If the humble onion inspired a poem, who knows what other…
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