Teresa Fonseca
When words are butterflies sucking mineral salts out of the bones…
sometimes their fruits are waves of flapping wings
helpless
sometimes they are harvested
by the life
of the mouth
with a strong beat
when the mouth is an efficient filter beak
words
they eat and shit
now the nourishing soup
now the venous liquid
will become
the words
the alarm explodes
the undertakers of the words are on their way
the words
are death found
and know there is no need to haste for in the dignity of the hunt
they will slowly become necrophagous like vultures
they are big wasps clashing against the transparent glass
and we on the other side
gasping for
with the deer’s protection
on the head
and the words droning like wasps
big
and entering our nose and mouth and hairs and the pores of the skin
in a rhizome-like drone
they eat us
they shit us
the words
and we on the other side of the glass
Cantiga d'amigo (*)
In the place of the spring there remains the red flow broken by the stag’s fluidity
she bawls and bolts and flies off and her friend stays still, sprawling. And well he might!
the wet sand dreams of a blooming hazelnut-tree in its
fall body
and the rap of repetition.
the naked boat moors once and again and again
dirty with sludge she does not move. blurred.
and her jinxed mother’s memory of the dance now rotten
and her girl friends freshly fated by fairies are angels that anger the house and the
husbands embark on other tides
in swelling sails
and the rap of repetition.
instead of the birdie the black- veiled crow gossip with fishy eyes of splintered glass
and the false friend arrives flaunting himself with deflated sails.
and she onlyhot only hot lonely and hot
no albas no salvos no waltzes
(*) TN: (“A friend’s song”) - a medieval Galician-Portuguese female-voiced troubadour love poem
Teresa Fonseca (b. 1969, Coimbra) got her degree in 1994 at the University of Coimbra and has taught Portuguese and English in preparatory and secondary schools since 1994. She has been a member of the Editorial Board of Oficina de Poesia since 2006. She has conducted creative writing workshops in schools and has participated in a number of public poetry readings.
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