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    Two Poems from Brazil, by Ana Martins Marques

    AdminBy AdminJune 13, 2023 Books
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    Japanese Garden

    I curve like a wooden bridge
    over a lake lit up by red carps
    I am hard and dry and barely adorned
    like a sand garden
    (though there are stones that blossom
    like flowers)
    silent like rice paper
    on which
    nothing
    has yet been written

    What Do I Know?

    I know few things I know that reading
    is a choreography
    that to be concentrated is to be distracted
    I know that first one loves a name I know
    that what one loves in love is the name of the love
    I know few things I forget quickly the things
    that I know I know that forgetting is musical
    I know that what I learned from the sea was not the sea
    that only death teaches what it teaches
    I know that it is a world of fear of neighbors
    of sleep of animals of fear
    I know that the strengths of coexistence survive through time
    being erased though
    I know that surrender resists
    that waiting is violent
    I know that intimacy is the name given
    to an infinite distance
    I know few things

    Translations from the Portuguese

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