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For this session we read a poem “Finale” by Pablo Neruda, posted below.

Our prompt was: “Write about a sea of renewal.”

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"Finale" by Pablo Neruda

Matilde, years or days
sleeping, feverish, 
here or there,
gazing off,
twisting my spine,   
bleeding true blood,   
perhaps I awaken
or am lost, sleeping:
hospital beds, foreign windows,
white uniforms of the silent walkers,
the clumsiness of feet.

And then, these journeys   
and my sea of renewal:   
your head on the pillow,   
your hands floating
in the light, in my light,   
over my earth.
It was beautiful to live   
when you lived!

The world is bluer and of the earth   
at night, when I sleep
enormous, within your small hands.

Source: The Sea and the Bells (City Lights Books, 2002)