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Platero

Juan Ramón Jiménez

Form
Form Poetry Collection
Year
Year 1914
Originally in
Originally in Spanish
Pages
Pages 150

Juan Ramón Jiménez never quite describes Platero: he talks to him. He calls him so soft you would think him stuffed with cotton, carrying no bones at all, and then he takes him walking every afternoon through the white streets of Moguer as if the donkey were the one friend worth confiding in.

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