Ode to Common Things by Pablo Neruda

Ginny Branch

“One of my favorites. I love all the things ❤️”

Soph

“We love a man who can write poetic truths about salt shakers and beds… and cats! 🐈 Men would like to be fish or fowl, snakes would rather have wings, and dogs would rather be lions. Engineers want to be poets, flies emulate swallows, and poets try hard to act like flies. But the cat wants nothing more than to be a cat, and every cat is a pure cat from its whiskers to its tail, from sixth sense to”