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Luiza Neto Jorge

THE POEM TEACHES THE ART OF FALLING

The poem teaches the art of falling
on various kinds of ground
from losing the sudden earth under our feet
as when a love collapses
and we lose our wits, to confronting
the promontory where the earth drops away
and the teeming absence overwhelms

to touching down after
a slowly sensuous fall,
our face reaching the ground
in a subtle delicate curve
a bow to no one particular
or to us in particular a posthumous
homage.

O Poema Ensina a Cair

O Poema Ensina a Cair

O poema ensina a cair
sobre os vários solos
desde perder o chão repentino sob os pés
como se perde os sentidos numa
queda de amor, ao encontro
do cabo onde a terra abate e
a fecunda ausência excede

até à queda vinda
da lenta volúpia de cair,
quando a face atinge o solo
numa curva delgada subtil
uma vénia a ninguém de especial
ou especialmente a nós uma homenagem
póstuma.
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THE POEM TEACHES THE ART OF FALLING

The poem teaches the art of falling
on various kinds of ground
from losing the sudden earth under our feet
as when a love collapses
and we lose our wits, to confronting
the promontory where the earth drops away
and the teeming absence overwhelms

to touching down after
a slowly sensuous fall,
our face reaching the ground
in a subtle delicate curve
a bow to no one particular
or to us in particular a posthumous
homage.

THE POEM TEACHES THE ART OF FALLING

The poem teaches the art of falling
on various kinds of ground
from losing the sudden earth under our feet
as when a love collapses
and we lose our wits, to confronting
the promontory where the earth drops away
and the teeming absence overwhelms

to touching down after
a slowly sensuous fall,
our face reaching the ground
in a subtle delicate curve
a bow to no one particular
or to us in particular a posthumous
homage.
Sponsors
Gemeente Rotterdam
Nederlands Letterenfonds
Stichting Van Beuningen Peterich-fonds
Prins Bernhard cultuurfonds
Lira fonds
Versopolis
J.E. Jurriaanse
Gefinancierd door de Europese Unie
Elise Mathilde Fonds
Stichting Verzameling van Wijngaarden-Boot
Veerhuis
VDM
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