Poem

Gastão Cruz

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BREATH

I won’t be able
to pull you from that abyss
place you at the table
I, too,
I know it well enough, am also somehow dead,
with you with this
day
that in taking shape left
the breath of time
audible in the cotton with which they stuffed
your mouth

© Translation: 2007, Alexis Levitin

SOLUÇO

SOLUÇO

Não poderei
tirar-te desse abismo
sentar-te à mesa
já estou
também, sei bem, um pouco morto,
por ti por esse
dia
que ao formar-se deixou
o soluço do tempo
audível no algodão com que taparam
a tua boca

© 2002, Gastão Cruz
From: Rua de Portugal
Publisher: Assírio & Alvim, Lisboa

Gastão Cruz

Gastão Cruz

(Portugal, 1941)

Gastão Cruz was born in 1941 in Faro, the capital city of the Algarve, Portugal’s southern-most coastal region. In 1958 he went to study at the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Letters, where he completed a degree in Germanic Studies. In 1961 he took part in the publication of a poetic collective called Poesia 61, in which he published his first collection of poems, Percussive Death. This was ...

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BREATH

I won’t be able
to pull you from that abyss
place you at the table
I, too,
I know it well enough, am also somehow dead,
with you with this
day
that in taking shape left
the breath of time
audible in the cotton with which they stuffed
your mouth

© 2007, Alexis Levitin
From: Rua de Portugal

BREATH

I won’t be able
to pull you from that abyss
place you at the table
I, too,
I know it well enough, am also somehow dead,
with you with this
day
that in taking shape left
the breath of time
audible in the cotton with which they stuffed
your mouth

© 2007, Alexis Levitin

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