<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476027" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cat's Dream</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How neatly a cat sleeps,<br>sleeps with its paws and its posture,<br>sleeps with its wicked claws,<br>and with its unfeeling blood,<br>sleeps with all the rings--<br>a series of burnt circles--<br>which have formed the odd geology<br>of its sand-colored tail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I should like to sleep like a cat,<br>with all the fur of time,<br>with a tongue rough as flint,<br>with the dry sex of fire;<br>and after speaking to no one,<br>stretch myself over the world,<br>over roofs and landscapes,<br>with a passionate desire<br>to hunt the rats in my dreams.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have seen how the cat asleep<br>would undulate, how the night<br>flowed through it like dark water;<br>and at times, it was going to fall<br>or possibly plunge into <br>the bare deserted snowdrifts.<br>Sometimes it grew so much in sleep<br>like a tiger's great-grandfather,<br>and would leap in the darkness over<br>rooftops, clouds and volcanoes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sleep, sleep cat of the night,<br>with episcopal ceremony<br>and your stone-carved moustache.<br>Take care of all our dreams;<br>control the obscurity<br>of our slumbering prowess<br>with your relentless heart<br>and the great ruff of your tail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Translated by Alastair Reid</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Submitted by Jen</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Pablo+Neruda">Pablo Neruda</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476027" data-title="Cat's Dream de Pablo Neruda" data-description="How neatly a cat sleeps, sleeps with its paws and its posture, sleeps with its wicked claws, and with its unfeeling blood, sleeps with all the rings-- a series of burnt circles-- which have formed the odd geology of its sand-colored tail. I shoul..."></div> </div> </div>

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