criação

a flame
breathes

a whirlwind
that threatens it

trembling
the light resists

if it weren't for the breeze
it wouldn't be a flame

Attempt on translating the poem criação.

Novelo

2020

Edited by the Portuguese publisher Glaciar,  making part of the Cadernos de Poesia (or Notebooks of Poetry) collecion. 

Available in the main bookstores in Portugal and in Brazil through Portal dos Livreiros.

!!!

faço os pingos
antes dos traços

grito e acentuo
o silêncio

calo e canto
o poema

que no fundo é
silêncio cantado

das reticências...

2014

A first, less consistent effort, but with good moments, later republished in Novelo.

Independent publication for family and friends.