Poetic Murder Mystery?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, murdered? Click HERE or HERE for more information. Pablo Neruda's real name is Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto.

My poem, "Exhuming Neruda" was first published in New Verse News in 2013, and is included in my Richard Wilbur Award-winning collection The Frangible Hour. 

Exhuming Neruda

 

 

Poet’s story becomes a murder mystery: Chile exhumes Pablo Neruda’s remains

(CNN Headline, April 10, 2013)

 

 

At Isla Negra, Neftalí, you sang of joy and pain,

of poverty, Matilde, birds, of artichokes and rain.

 

And once at Isla Negra, they searched each corner of

your hideaway, but all they found was bread and wine and love.

 

And now at Isla Negra, they are digging up your bones;

they’ll fly them to the capital, then rearrange the stones.

 

At Isla Negra, Neftalí, far from the abattoirs,

a leaf drifts to the earth amid the keen of grass and stars.