The speaker of a poem in this collection compares his mouth to “a spider, trying to hide” after “marking the atlas of your body / with crosses (15[1])of fire.” (15[1])Another poem in this collection implores, “let me remember you as you were before you existed,” and begins, “every day you play with the light of the universe.” (15[1]-5[1])The speaker thinks to write, “the night is starry / and the stars are blue (15[1])and (*) shiver in the distance” in a poem in this collection that claims, “love is so short, forgetting is so long.” (-5[1])The title object’s “white hills, white thighs” open this collection’s first poem, “Body of a Woman.” The refrain “in you everything sank!” appears in this collection’s final poem, which follows “Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines.” For 10 points, name this collection of twenty-one romantic poems by Pablo Neruda. ■END■ (0[2])