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Margarida Vale de Gato
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Of Consuming Desire
How to know if this is the effort
that astonishment of the world demands from flesh,
or if it is art’s pretension leaving
a key all night in the door
to lustily welcome
the unforeseen, love, plunder
in the excited anxiety of what we
are able to do next?
if this is the strenuous abandon
to the unquiet instant or if rather
the evasion is eluding us? so tenuous
the border between escape and offering.
You are on the other side and I don’t
know how to arrive and if I dig
a tunnel under the sea can there be
a greater exhumation before you: