"PETALS FROM AND FOR YOU"

a liberated woman
imprisoned in a small body
with a weary soul

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a caged ocean
in a drop
like a bird
about to fly
made of sea

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I only seek
the singular love
of a god
that burns
in the art of the words
and tills the earth
that burns him

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smoke, smoke for everything and nothing, ever

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without fear
without pain
without sorrow

perhaps one day I will die again

by Clara van MANEN, on "PÉTALAS POR E PARA TI" (a few extracts of the book), Edition NoTag 2025

(English translation by Armando TABORDA, 2025)