Márcio- André Poems

open the mineral so clear of facets
the prism fruit exact like angles multiple
stone as bone as water on its sides
...

moon-blade-shoulder blade
the porcelain dog shattered over the porcelain of the constellation

or this heavy water in the light clots
...

the defibrillator is a verbal relic
rather than a skeleton's device

time in the word

all that came first moved inside the word
even the cardiac pump and its blood vessels

it's in it that things awake
and then the language-that-doesn't-say
silence
grants to each world its physics

the body stands further than around the spine
the body grants a place to each star that earns a name

[the seagull keeps the sea in its body]

to chew the word
as if chewing a heart
from the valve to the auricles

each word is a shrine
a destiny
a design
...

we need the air's intimacy
in order to bear the force of gravity -

in the jump : the inside cut of words
...

the day rises in golden fury
and before it
antennae plot revolutions
with their antennae's mind
...

here from the belly of this whale
the city is a glittering shoal
and
drummond's statue has its back to the ocean -
...

: her voice throughout the sea is the sea crossing itself

remote call
from the woman perched on the rocks
...

from the entire garden i choose
the rayed cornea of your flower

or the rayed flower between your legs
...

this a temple
just as my present lover's
chain of teeth is a temple
...

in the labyrinth-seed
the water invades the plastic grooves
to burst through them with its atomic bomb energy:
...