♥ cherries.

it happened this month, in this country.

unexpectedly: nevertheless, all

came to pass as i tell it: day after day

the country brimmed over with cherries.

it was stubborn,

that masculine weather with its impudent

kiss of the pole: no one could foretell

the bounty i bore in the shadows

(dead metals, the bones of volcanoes)

(stillness so remote

they bandaged the eyes of the islands):

then, between boulders and rubble

that labyrinth diminishing little by little

till nothing could force its way forward but snow—

when without hint of its coming—

a breath from those honeycombs, bearing

the color a flag might search out of its folds.

and cherry by cherry, change was wrought in the world.

if anyone doubts this,

i say to all comers: look into

my will, at my heart's true transparency,

for though wind swept the summer away

i have cherries enough for all, hidden cherries.

pablo neruda

{images via we heart it.}

this is the poem that nick selected for the wedding.

isn't it beautiful?