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António Osório

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Guts

Child that, leg by tiny
leg, then the guts,
divests a cricket
of its minuscule soul.

And no one can remake
the cricket and the child.

© Translation: 2008, Richard Zenith

VÍSCERAS

VÍSCERAS

Criança que despeja um grilo,
pata a pata,
víscera a víscera,
da sua pequeníssima alma.

E não há quem refaça
o grilo e a criança.

© 1982, António Osório
From: Décima aurora
Publisher: Regra do Jogo, Lisbon

António Osório

António Osório

(Portugal, 1933)

António Osório was born in 1933 and published his first book in 1972, when he was almost forty. Descended from a family with an impressive literary and artistic tradition – Ana de Castro Osório (1872–1935), for instance, was one of Portugal’s first writers of children’s literature and also published the first edition of the greatest work of Portuguese symbolist poetry, Clepsidra, by Camilo Pess...

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Guts

Child that, leg by tiny
leg, then the guts,
divests a cricket
of its minuscule soul.

And no one can remake
the cricket and the child.

© 2008, Richard Zenith
From: Décima aurora

Guts

Child that, leg by tiny
leg, then the guts,
divests a cricket
of its minuscule soul.

And no one can remake
the cricket and the child.

© 2008, Richard Zenith

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