Excerpts from a wood-carved table inspired by the poem The Night on the Island by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda

Excerpt from the poem:

The whole night long I have slept with you

next to the sea, on the island.

You were wild and gentle between pleasure and dreams,

between fire and water.

Perhaps very late

our dreams were united

in the heights or in the depths,

on high like branches moved by the same wind,

down below like red roots touching each other.

Perhaps your dream

broke away from mine

and searched for me

across the darkness of the sea

as before

when you did not yet exist,

when without noticing you......

’Ολη τη νύχτα κοιμήθηκα μαζί σου

κοντά στη θάλασσα, στο νησί.

’Ήσουν άγρια και γλυκιά ανάμεσα στην ηδονή και στον ύπνο

ανάμεσα στη φωτιά και στο νερό.

’Ίσως πολύ αργά

ενώθηκαν τα όνειρά μας,

στα ψηλά ή στα βαθιά,

στα ψηλά σαν κλαδιά που κουνάει ο ίδιος άνεμος,

στα χαμηλά σαν κόκκινες ρίζες που αγγίζονται......