Nature doesn't nurture anything
it never looks back
parasols and paradise
I die
within a landscape
where stations pass
by clocks fixed in the open
From the windows of a train
through time
brusque cuts quick
plucked by the root from plain air:
what the moon pulls from the stone
pieces of sky and sea
mountains, ah! Beyond and indifferent
torn leaves, thou shall & shall not what?
And in which notebook?
Armando Freitas Filho (Born 1940) Brazil
Translated by Francisco Vilhena and The Poetry Translation Workshop
Source: Poetry Translation Centre
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