<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="c-feature-hd" style="margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="c-hdgSans c-mix-hdgSans_inline c-hdgSans_2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; line-height: 1.231; font-weight: normal;"><font size="4" class="">A Dog Has Died</font></h1></div><div class="c-feature-sub_vast c-feature-sub" style="margin: 0px 0px 33px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-style: inherit; text-indent: -1em;" class="">My dog has died.</span></div></div><div class="c-feature-bd" style="margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3;"><div class="o-poem isActive" data-view="PoemView" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative;"><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">I buried him in the garden<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">next to a rusted old machine.<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">Some day I'll join him right there,<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">but now he's gone with his shaggy coat,<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">his bad manners and his cold nose,<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">and I, the materialist, who never believed<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">in any promised heaven in the sky<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">for any human being,<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">I believe in a heaven I'll never enter.<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">Yes, I believe in a heaven for all dogdom<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">where my dog waits for my arrival<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">waving his fan-like tail in friendship.<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">Ai, I'll not speak of sadness here on earth,<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">of having lost a companion<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">who was never servile.<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">His friendship for me, like that of a porcupine<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">withholding its authority,<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">was the friendship of a star, aloof,<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">with no more intimacy than was called for,<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">with no exaggerations:<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">he never climbed all over my clothes<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">filling me full of his hair or his mange,<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">he never rubbed up against my knee<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">like other dogs obsessed with sex.<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">No, my dog used to gaze at me,<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">paying me the attention I need,<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">the attention required<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">to make a vain person like me understand<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">that, being a dog, he was wasting time,<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">but, with those eyes so much purer than mine,<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">he'd keep on gazing at me<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">with a look that reserved for me alone<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">all his sweet and shaggy life,<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">always near me, never troubling me,<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">and asking nothing.<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">Ai, how many times have I envied his tail<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">as we walked together on the shores of the sea<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">in the lonely winter of Isla Negra<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">where the wintering birds filled the sky<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">and my hairy dog was jumping about<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">full of the voltage of the sea's movement:<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">my wandering dog, sniffing away<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">with his golden tail held high,<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">face to face with the ocean's spray.<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">Joyful, joyful, joyful,<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">as only dogs know how to be happy<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">with only the autonomy<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">of their shameless spirit.<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">There are no good-byes for my dog who has died,<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">and we don't now and never did lie to each other.<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">So now he's gone and I buried him,<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">and that's all there is to it.</div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-style: inherit; white-space: pre;"> </span>- Pablo Neruda</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Translation by Alfred Yankauer)</div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div></div></div></body></html>