
on apartness:
(poems by Maria Fernandes after the photos and titles by Fedra Espiga Pinto)
—
11 months healing
until deafness is curdled
until curds
are broken in
all the measure
of a blurred shadow
until the gush
of boiling lava
– cervical witness –
of the existence
of
—
strange body
at the centre inverse
of a revealed essence:
– flash and a half at noon
by a chord-sound in sky
(above our heads
a misty mist remembering)
an announced presence
of thousand and five hundred
or so
shades and
—
the more I walk around
I cannot see
that souls’ settler
bluebird
the conjugate ancestor
to the curvilinear composition
the interrupted breathing
always and at each
break of lucidity
there will always be time
to sin(k) the rhythm of
—
a rock on top of it
and knowing then done
the inauguration process
of gaze calmness
knowing the lightness
of a heavy-feather
which is the absence
of a blurred colour
of laughter
of strength
of genius – lies!
to refuse – liquidation
the apartness
—
and they were never seen together again
not to applied
sociologies
nor to proto-autistic
futurisms
here behold
the scaffold
construction where
under woolly-steps
souls perish
from Us.