09 setembro 2008

Beneath my hands
your small breasts
are the upturned bellies
of breathing fallen sparrows.

Wherever you move
I hear the sounds of closing wings
of falling wings.


I am speechless because
you have fallen beside me
because your eyelashes
are the spines of tiny fragile animals.


I dread the time
when your mouth
begins to call me hunter.


When you call me close
to tell me
your body is not beautiful
I want to summon
the eyes and hidden mouths
of stone and light and water
to testify against you.


I want them to surrender before you

the trembling rhyme of your face

from their deep caskets.

When you call me close
to tell me
your body is not beautiful
I want my body and my hands
to be pools
for your looking and laughing.



Leonard Cohen*


*[Mr. LEONARD COHEN, cujo verdadeiro significado se revelou quando,
numa bela noite de luar à beira Tejo, tive o privilégio de assistir ao vivo, a isto: "ring the bells that still can ring forget your perfect offering there is a crack, a crack in everything that's how the light gets in..." e a isto: "love is not a victory march it's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah..." ]

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