Wednesday, December 14
CASSINO BEACH
you prefer the raw
to the refined:
mouth oyster tongue
lake moon place
landscape with pine trees
in the background. you always
preferred the raw
to the reel, insomnia to
the barber of seville.
landscape of pines
with the abyss
behind.
you need
to live in the ellipses
need to dissect
the frog of poetry –
don't abolish the pond.
leaper, leap in
to the great leap.
salt air
eats chrome wheels.
you prefer the raw
you didn't need
to say it.
(Angélica Freitas,
translated from Portuguese by Hilary Kaplan)