Eugénio de Andrade

Dario Gonçalves photo, published in the book COM O SOL EM CADA SÍLABA

CRYSTALLIZATIONS

1
With words I love.

2
You must incline like a rose
only when the wind pass.

3
Undress yourself
like the dew
inside a morning shell.

4
Love
like the river goes up the last steps
to the meeting with its stream bed.

5
How can we blossom
to the weight of much light?

6
I am of ticket:
I love the short-lived.

7
Where I hope to die
it will be morning still?

From Ostinato Rigore -1964
Translated by IP.