(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.