Nude – Pablo Neruda and Photographers

Posted by Carmen Lobo✔ ⋅ February 2, 2013 ⋅ Leave a comment

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Photo: Erich Consemüller (1902-1957) untitled, 1926

Naked, you are simple as one of your hands,
smooth, earthy, small, transparent, round:
you have moon-lines, apple-pathways:
naked, you are slender as a naked grain of wheat.

Naked, you are blue as a night in Cuba;
you have vines and stars in your hair;
naked you are spacious and yellow
as summer in a golden church.
Naked, you are tiny as one of your nails –
curved, subtle, rosy, till the day is born
and you withdraw to the underground world,
as if down a long tunnel of clothing and of chores:
your clear light dims, gets dressed – drops its leaves –
and becomes a naked hand again.
Pablo Neruda

Photo: Gjon Mili – Female Nude 1935

SONETO XXVII

Desnuda eres tan simple como una de tus manos,
lisa, terrestre, mínima, redonda, transparente,
tienes líneas de luna, caminos de manzana,
desnuda eres delgada como el trigo desnudo.
Desnuda eres azul como la noche en Cuba,
tienes enredaderas y estrellas en el pelo,

Edward Steichen (1879-1973)nude miss sousa 1933
desnuda eres enorme y amarilla como el verano en una iglesia de oro.

Desnuda eres pequeña como una de tus uñas, curva, sutil, rosada hasta que nace el día y te metes en el subterráneo del mundo como en un largo túnel de trajes y trabajos: tu claridad se apaga, se viste, se deshoja y otra vez vuelve a ser una mano desnuda

Photo: Edward Steichen (1879-1973) Nude Miss Sousa 1933