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Photo by Armando Taborda

When I sleep I do not usually think. Until
the morning encloses me on the frame of a
strange desire to leave. What I can
define as an old fidelity quietness.
I answer to the phone call from a friend with ritual
voice and by a while I retract myself into the photos
with which I lit your sleepless nights.
I unfurl a sail and
accustom the body to a black wool. I return
to my Island, Atlantis of traces. And I smile.
I smile until the clock claims me for
another night. Without mystery. Only
night.

///

Quando durmo não costumo pensar. Até que
a manhã me enclausure na esquadria de uma
estranha vontade de partir. A que posso
designar sossego de uma fidelidade antiga.
Atendo o telefone de um amigo de voz
ritual e brevemente me recolho às fotografias
com que te iluminei em noites de insónia.
Abro uma vela e
habituo o corpo a uma lã negra. Volto para
a minha ilha, atlântida de vestígios. E sorrio.
Sorrio até que o relógio me reclame para
uma outra noite. Sem mistério. Apenas
noite.

by Cecília BARREIRA, in "15 ANOS DE ALGUMA POESIA", Europress - Editores e Distribuidores de Publicações, Lda, 1999

(English translated by Armando TABORDA, 2015)

(photo taken from Internet; edited by Armando TABORDA)

(post 1st edition, 2015; 2nd edition, 2020)

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Comments
 Steve Bucknell
Steve Bucknell club
Your marrying of words and image gets better and better, Armando.
8 years ago.
 Armando Taborda
Armando Taborda club has replied
You are so pleasing, my friend!

Hope to see you soon over here!
8 years ago.
 Armando Taborda
Armando Taborda club
Thanks for fave, DinosaursAreNot Dead!
8 years ago.
 Nouchetdu38
Nouchetdu38 club
Une vue aérienne surréaliste! J'aime beaucoup!*****
3 years ago.
 Armando Taborda
Armando Taborda club has replied
C'est réel, les Ïles Açorienes
3 years ago. Edited 3 years ago.

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