How many churches are there in heaven?
is one of the 316 questions in
Pablo Neruda's The Book of Questions

each of these questions
defies a logical answer

each question instantly paints a picture
which at first seems valid,
but then, as the neocortex kicks into gear,
surprise and bewilderment set in

here is another example -

And does the father
who lives in your dreams
die again when you awaken?

Chile's Pablo Neruda wrote
The Book of Questions after he was awarded
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971,
and shortly before his death in 1973

the book's simple, innocent-sounding questions
are anything but simple or innocent -

they reflect the wisdom and wit
of a man whom many consider to be
Latin America's greatest poet

a question that occurred to me is -

"how could a site like PonderAbout.com,
which values the pondering of a good question,
wait so many posts before spotlighting
Neruda's mind bending The Book of Questions?"