The square arrives at crystal falling

The square arrives at crystal falling

from its symmetry:

whoever opens the doors of earth

finds in darkness, clear and complete,

the light of that transparent system.

The cube of salt, the triangular

fingers of quartz: the linear water

of diamonds: the labyrinth

of sulfur and its Gothic splendor:

inside the nut of amethyst

the multiplication of rectangles:

all is found below the earth:

geometry buried:

school of salt: order of fire.

Pablo Neruda