Conceição Riachos
In the steady thickness of fingers
shadow of some kind of greed
gestures become shapes
fiercely wounding the burnt-out candle
of tenderness
in the repeated shape of the lips
banal words colouring
the secret
forever the livable place
kneaded over the map of the eye
green uttered dialogue
drafted on the border
we fold the light of trees
we penetrate the half-light
to the bottom of syllables
fragmented
When language is a petal
in the vertical breath of breeze´s treads
in hands trembling
the sentence light night after night
moving like sand
on the sacred margins of the third water
the tired clothes drip humid
rustling of beings on the barge of the river
where worses shuddent
in the pockets rocks
sounding supreme audiences
catch the limits of multivarious morning
on the plain of the poem
Conceição Riachos lives in Coimbra. She has a degree in Child Education (Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra), has worked in Pediatric departments with critically ill children and has a vast number of publications in the area. Her poetry books, published by Pé de Página Editores, include: Ritos de Passagem e Olhares – 1998, Peregrinação – 2000, Instantes (with photographs by Maria João Baginha) – 2002, and A Silhueta Branda das Veias – 2005. She is also author of the book O Livro do Tó João, in collaboration with Beecham. Her poems served as illustrations for Maria João Baginha’s photography exhibitions in Tomar, Lisboa, and Coimbra.
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