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you, my friend, could be the smoke’s daughter,you who may not have known you were born of fire and rage,lightning over flaming lava etched your violet mouth,your sex in the scorched oak’s moss like a ring in a nest,your fingers there in the flames, your compact bodyrose from leaves of fire that make me recallthere were bakers in your family tree,you’re still the rainforest’s bread, ash from violent wheat,
you, my friend, could be the smoke’s daughter,you who may not have known you were born of fire and rage,lightning over flaming lava etched your violet mouth,your sex in the scorched oak’s moss like a ring in a nest,your fingers there in the flames, your compact bodyrose from leaves of fire that make me recallthere were bakers in your family tree,you’re still the rainforest’s bread, ash from violent wheat,
Approximate author period: c. 1938 AD · modern
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- Pablo Neruda
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- Approximate author period: c. 1938 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1904 to 1973; Wikidata Q34189, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34189 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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