Photo credit:   Laurie Schneider 2001

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Horses

From the window I saw the horses.

 I was in Berlin , in winter. The light

was without light, the sky without sky.

 The air white like wet bread.

And from my window a vacant arena,

 bitten by the teeth of winter.

 Suddenly; led by a man,

 ten horses stepped out into the mist.

 Hardly had they surged forth, like flame,

 than to my eyes they filled the whole world,

 empty till then. Perfect, ablaze,

 they were like ten gods with wide pure hoofs,

 with manes like a dream of salt.

 Their rumps were worlds and oranges.

 Their color was honey; amber, fire.

 Their necks were towers

 cut from the stone of pride,

 and behind their transparent eyes

 energy raged, like a prisoner.

And there, in the silence, in the middle

 of the day; of the dark, slovenly winter,

 the intense horses were blood

 and rhythm, the animating treasure of life.

 I looked, I looked and was reborn: without knowing it,

 there, was the fountain, the dance of gold, the sky,

 the fire that revived in beauty.

 I have forgotten that dark Berlin winter.

I will not forget the light of the horses.

                                    Pablo Neruda