Animal

That sure-eyed beetle

flew with open elytra

right to the infrared cherry.

He devoured it without understanding

the chemistry of powerfulness

and then returned to the foliage

converted into a firebug.

His heart roved

like a comet soaked

in the radiation delicious

and went off burning with the substance

of such blazing electrons:

dissolving came in the end to be

one of the rainbow’s symptoms.

Pablo Neruda