Alberto Estima de Oliveira — O Diálogo do Silêncio / The Dialogue of Silence 6

For such short poems, these are hard to translate. I'm not very happy with my last two translations.

I almost left "lorcha" in the English version, because it's not necessarily clear that "junk" refers to the kind of Chinese ship. Now you know.


6

sob a lorcha
deslizam lágrimas

    caminhos da foz
    
    páginas
    líquidas
    de rocha.


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6

tears slip
beneath the junk

    on their way to the estuary

    liquid
    pages
    of stone