ABOUT
ABOUT
Chancellor Florida State Poets Association
Florida Poet Laureate Volusia County
Winner of 2011 American Poet Prize
Selected Poems of
Maria Teresa Horta
Translated by:
M.B. McLatchey and Edite Cunhã
Published in Metamorphoses, 2019
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FURTIVE STEPS
I feel its traces
furtive
in the hollow of my hand
gaining sudden strangeness
luminosities, ravings
of my lost senses
arresting my heart
descending to the bottom
by the arm’s attrition
until it reaches
the slim wrist
It is poetry arriving
taking form and voice
saying what I do not say
TRAÇOS FURTIVOS
Sinto-lhe os traços
furtivos
no côncavo da minha mão
ganhando estranhezas súbitas
agudezas, desvarios
dos meus sentidos perdidos
a prender-me o coração
a descer até ao fundo
pela rasura do braço
até chegar ao desvão
na delgadeza do pulso
É a poesia que chega
tomando forma e ruído
a falar o que eu não digo
Copyright © 2019 M. B. McLatchey &
Edite Cunha, with permission. All rights reserved.
Published in Metamorphoses, Fall 2019.
Copyright © 2017 Maria Teresa Horta,
from her collection Poesis.
Dom Quixote Publisher, Lisbon.