BLANK PIECE OF PAPER


I look at you blank piece of paper

I foresee a spreading blood tear

being absorbed by the sheet pores

blotting paper of a not yet coming pain



idea

ballerina

pilgrim

deciduous

non-existent



the pain

whatever it is

disappears through the pores

of any blank

piece of paper.



(to read the original Portuguese version please click on the figure)

Illustration by Fernando Grade

In "VIOLA DELTA", Volume XXXIII, 2002

(1st edition, 2009; 2nd edition, 2017)