Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market - The Poetry of Pablo Neruda - 读趣百科

Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market

a bullet

winged fins

depths,

projectile,

dead.

All around you

were lettuces,

sea foam

carrots,

grapes,

of the earth,

of the

unfathomable

I saw you,

windmilling

Among the market greens,

from the abyss,

witness

to deepest night.

of

only dead remains,

only you had survived,

olive, oily fish.

pure

reborn,

at anchor in the current,

of the ocean

in the swift

of the unknown,

the

marine

shadow,

in all the market

Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market

was the only

a deceased king

a swimming

green

ocean

submarine fir,

seed

now

yet

yours

of seaquakes,

amid

I saw you dead,

of nature;

amid the fragile greens

you were

a solitary ship,

armed

among the vegetables

as if you were still

fin and prow black and oiled,

but

machine:

purposeful form

the abyss,

ly you, well-aimed