the dreamer, Jetinder Marjara
fotografia de Marília Campos
apetece partilhar aquilo a que chamam de solidão
numa mesa de café
numa cidade a que não se conhecem os atalhos,
as pessoas, os hábitos.
assim se mastiga o tempo
temperado com vida.
apetece olhar para a maneira de olhar,
os modos de estar, de sorrir, de pentear, de dançar
Aquela (minha) dança,
os modos de fugir, de esconder o que não se consegue ter
para se ser feliz.
apetece viajar, desvendar as cadeiras onde se senta
a espera dura de um presente construído, passo a passo,
aquela lágrima que hidrata.
apetece perguntar como é lá...
Her skin was darker than ashes
And she had something to say
Bout being naked to the elements
At the end of yet another day
And the rain on her back that continued to fall
From the bruise of her lips
Swollen, fragile, and small
And the bills that you paid with were worth nothing at all
A lost foreign currency
Multi-coloured, barely reputable
Like the grasses that blew in the warm summer breeze
Well she offered you this to do as you pleased
And where is the poetry?
Didn't she promise us poetry?
The redwoods, the deserts, the tropical ease
The swamps and the prairie dogs, the Joshua trees
The long straight highways from dirt road to tar
Hitching your wheels to truck, bus, or car
And the lives that you hold in the palm of your hand
You toss them aside small and damn near unbreakable
You drank all the water and you pissed yourself dry
Then you fell to your knees and proceeded to cry
And who could feel sorry for a drunkard like this
In a democracy of dunces with a parasites kiss?
And where are the stars?
Didn't she promise us stars?
Nothing will ever be as it was
The price has been paid with a thousand loose shoes
Pictures are pasted on shop windows and walls
Like a poor mans Boltanski
Lost one and all.
Sell, sell
Bid your farewell
Come, come
Save yourself
Give yourself over
Pushing your consciousness
Deep into every atom and cell,
Sell,
Bid your farewell
Come, come
Save yourself
Give yourself over
Pushing your consciousness
Deep into every atom and cell,
Sell,
Bid your farewell
Come, come
Save yourself
Give yourself over
Pushing your consciousness
Nine Horses, Atom and Cell
From childhood's hour I have not been as others were; I have not seen
as others saw; I could not bring my passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken my sorrow; I could not awaken
my heart to joy at the same tone; and all I loved, I loved alone.
Then
in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.
Edgar Allan Poe
fotografia de Haleh Bryan, Portrait bitsleve, leve
agarro-me à superfície instável do mundo
suspensa no fim das coisas que não se querem perder.
re faço-me
num jogo de equilíbrios s s s s.
é o meu pensamento térmico,
na dissolução do que não encontra lugar dentro deste corpo.
exercício feito
de mãos
suadas,
senhoras que tecem o tecido daquilo que vou sendo.
choro invisível,
momento só
meu.
Vibrissar por Cristina Valentim