From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering corselet, out to the tip that like an amber thorn begins you, small, superlative being, you are a miracle, and you blaze
Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda (ed. HarperCollins, 1997)