<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p dir="ltr"></p><p dir="ltr">Reading Neruda While Waiting for an Ultrasound</p><div><br></div><p dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">We try hard not to fall into error - like trying to avoid the beehive, though it's where the honey is kept.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Autocorrect wants to make beehive Bernice, wants to turn Neruda into Jerusalem</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">My own eyes, when they spot The Redress of Poetry on my shelf, see The Red Dress of Poetry.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">When i love you less than perfectly, it is the same.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">When I am the sand in your soap, it is the same.</span></p><p dir="ltr">Peel back the edge for the honey.</p><p dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Michael Sierchio</span></p><br><p></p></body></html>