November 23, 2010

We wrote odes, read/listened to more poetry, and discussed the children's books.
Write an ode to a common thing.
http://tipdeck.com/how-to-write-an-ode

Ode to Fried Potatoes

by Pablo Neruda

Translated from the Spanish by Maria Jacketti

The world's joy
is spluttering,
sizzling in olive oil.
Potatoes
to be fried
enter the skillet,
snowy wings
of a morning swan –
and they leave
half-braised in gold,
gift of the crackling amber
of olives.
Garlic
embellishes the potato
with its earthy perfume,
and the pepper
is pollen that has traveled
beyond the reefs,
and so,
freshly
dressed
in a marbled suit,
plates are filled
with the echoes of potatoey abundance:
delicious simplicity of the earth.


Read more at Suite101: Pablo Neruda's Ode to Fried Potatoes http://www.suite101.com/content/pablo-nerudas-ode-to-fried-potatoes-a247885#ixzz16oJLXANp