Portraits alongside

I sing the death of remembering

not belonging

to the absence of longing forever

for a place in the placenta

blood

I sing in the mist

under the night in pieces

portraits alongside the spirit

woven by a cloak of esteem

I sing

to nobody

the empty road is my burden

air

pain

of jasmines on the shade

inside me

scents disguised

in gardens

give off contentment.        

Poem by: Josette Lassance

Translated by: Fabíola Marques da Silva