quinta-feira, 16 de abril de 2015

The Bed


The Bed

Our balcony's door is open
The whole room's fillings are less
important now
because the wind
is warm and penetrates
the inside, renovating the surface
with new dust -
earthly particles, learning to
survive.

As we do, so efficiently
like now
take the landscape
I stretch one hand and it's gone
the gray wall behind the mountain
the mountain and all its trees
are gone
Only the wind remains
because it's faster and able
to readjust into different
forms, liquid positions responding
to pressure

A warm wind is blowing
and the framed photographs, the books
piled on the floor
the dirty underwear left aside -
nothing is important

The bed is a different matter -
being the one human organ residing outside
the body's conventional border -
it gives birth and death
a hand, extra sweet or bitter
it helps us transcend into
a non verbal language

Up in the mountain
the wind keeps turning the shovels and
an exquisite aesthetic phrase
forms, somewhere

A bed must be as simple and white as possible.

© José Coelho, 2015

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