Hello again Lovely Reader,

Sabrina here from engaging the senses foundation. I hope you enjoyed yesterday’s post and had time to open the treasure chest at the foundation’s website.

I wasn’t planning on posting again till next week but a friend from NYC turned me on to this conversation between the great Nikki Giovanni’s and younger poet, Kwame Alexander and it was too good not to share.

Best of all I thought this excerpt from Pablo Neruda’s poem

“I Explain A Few Things.”

You are going to ask – and where are the lilacs? And the poppy-petalled metaphysics? And the rain repeatedly spattering its words and drilling them full of apertures and birds?

I’ll tell you all the news.

Look at broken Spain.

From every house burning metal flows instead of flowers, from every socket of Spain, Spain emerges and from every dead child a rifle with eyes, and from every crime bullets are born which will one day find the bull’s-eye of your hearts.

And you’ll ask – why doesn’t his poetry speak of dreams and leaves and the great volcanoes of his native land?

Come and see the blood in the streets. Come and see, the blood in the streets. Come and see the blood, in the streets.

You can listen to whole 7 minute audio go to https://www.npr.org/player/embed/578105649/578106368

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.