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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 Ezra, Spring 2019
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THE LEAVES
I defoliate the petals
the leaves of the poem
until I reach perdition
desiring the unutterable
between the place where one helps
the hand that writes and the space
where the writing finds shelter
AS FOLHAS
Desfolho as pétalas
as folhas do poema
até chegar à perdição
desejando o indizível
entre o sítio onde se apoia
a mão que escreve e o espaço
o nó onde a escrita se abriga
Copyright © 2019 M. B. McLatchey &
Edite Cunha, with permission. All rights reserved.
Published in Ezra, Spring 2019.
Copyright © 2017 Maria Teresa Horta,
from her collection Poesis.
Dom Quixote Publisher, Lisbon.
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