I draw the curtains of the afternoon - Luís Carlos Patraquim

I draw the curtains of the afternoon

because I desire your fullness

within the poem

you go past in your kanga

and your body is like the dunes

where the pine trees

that rustle nearby grow

you brandish the fury

of the falling wave

in my gesture 

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Luís Carlos Patraquim (born 1953) Mozambique

Translated by John Mitras

Source: Luís Carlos Patraquim: Ten Poems, John Mitras, Stained Glass, 2011