SHORT POEM

You slapped my face
oh but so gently
I smiled
at the caress

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POEMA CURTO

Deste-me uma bofetada
ó mas tão gentilmente
que sorri
com a carícia

by William Carlos WILLIAMS (1883-1963), in SIX AMERICAN POETS, Edited by Joel Conarroe, Random House, New York, 1991

(Portuguese translated by Armando TABORDA, 2018)

(photo taken from Internet; edited by Armando TABORDA)