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 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?"