TE19 Iberian Adventure

Poems Rosa Oliveira Translated from Portuguese by Joe Williams

cumulonimbus

because it had to be this way it was prescribed and we followed down the clouded street awaiting a mythical summer that summer withheld somewhere else always hidden always showing itself it was there inside us all along shrunken, ruffled but the cold granite nailed to the untimely heaven of our youth didn’t give us leave

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