Alberto Estima de Oliveira — O Diálogo do Silêncio / The Dialogue of Silence 25

Another tricky one. It brings to mind the overlapping images of the trees along the (now gone) Praia Grande and the forest of masts along the Porto Interior.



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passeio o corpo
no casual balanço
da ramagem

remeto
ao cerne
meus olhos
líquidos
de mastros
e navios

dessedentando
o núcleo
das raízes.


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my body wanders
under the casual swaying
of branches

i fix
my liquid eyes
on the heartwood
of masts
and ships

quenching the thirst
of the mass
of roots.