Narcissus Poeticus
dried up
(in a waterless
vase)
ill planted
in a (tiny)
waste land
of the dim apartment:
how to resist
dust dirt pollution?
mistreated ex-narcissus
abandoned to its fate
(flat on the floor)
without well
or mirror
dried up
(alone in the vase)
without sweat or saliva
or tears
to save it
died
(soot
on its soul)
—Translated from the Portuguese by Regina Alfarano
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