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“A Dog Has Died” by Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda's factual ode weeps through wide-open eyes

Pablo Neruda is a great master of understatement, weaving the sparest details around the complexity of loss with a cry that carries its own weight and does not ask to be comforted. The first four lines of his poem “A Dog … Continue reading

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