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Poem

Gastão Cruz

MORNING

That’s how the morning is, a name
for the world, opening one’s eyes like
someone who is speaking
May time or
diurnal death
give to open eyes the nothingness of words

And so the sun will be
the silence in a look or a hand
upon a forehead
that brings the eyelids down
as if the fingers were giving to the head the truth
hidden in that nothingness

and the morning were coming
not like a vast shadow to clothe the body’s
voice
but to cover it with
the light
of the words that are not there

A MANHÃ

A MANHÃ

É assim a manhã, um nome
para o mundo, abrir os olhos como
alguém que fala
Podem o tempo ou a
morte diurna
dar aos olhos abertos o nada das palavras

O sol será então
o silêncio no olhar ou a mão
sobre a testa
que faz descer as pálpebras
como se os dedos dessem à cabeça a verdade
submersa nesse nada

e a manhã viesse
não como sombra vasta vestir a voz
do corpo
mas cobri-la da
luz
das palavras que faltam
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MORNING

That’s how the morning is, a name
for the world, opening one’s eyes like
someone who is speaking
May time or
diurnal death
give to open eyes the nothingness of words

And so the sun will be
the silence in a look or a hand
upon a forehead
that brings the eyelids down
as if the fingers were giving to the head the truth
hidden in that nothingness

and the morning were coming
not like a vast shadow to clothe the body’s
voice
but to cover it with
the light
of the words that are not there

MORNING

That’s how the morning is, a name
for the world, opening one’s eyes like
someone who is speaking
May time or
diurnal death
give to open eyes the nothingness of words

And so the sun will be
the silence in a look or a hand
upon a forehead
that brings the eyelids down
as if the fingers were giving to the head the truth
hidden in that nothingness

and the morning were coming
not like a vast shadow to clothe the body’s
voice
but to cover it with
the light
of the words that are not there
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