Gonçalo Manuel Tavares
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There are no precious stones, there are no safes,
nor buried treasures to play pirates.
None talks with each other - dumb, you'll say, or uninterested.
The elements here present have certain colours,
...
In childhood the Sun was a taller companion,
appearing first on the football pitch, and there, standing still,
it guarded the back of the nets and the grass that grew warmer.
As if the sun were in fact a cooking utensil, matter
...
In the morning, when I went past the shop
the dog barked
and didn't viciously attack me because its iron chain
prevented it.
...
it's evident we can explain.
it's evident we can conclude.
it's evident we can cure
it's evident we can open 1 practice and say: PAY!
...
the woman has the chemistry of animals and the pollen of plants,
and she steals from the Great Soul its Appetite in order to multiply things that are born.
Infection is calm.
If a flower could fly it would lose its scent;
...
Gonçalo Manuel Tavares Biography
Gonçalo M. Tavares was born in August, 1970. He is an Epistemology Teacher. He published his first book in December 2001. In the last two years, he has published several other books – poetry, plays, short fiction, novels. He won the Ler/Círculo de Leitores BCP Award with his book Jerusalem (Círculo de Leitores), the Branquinho da Fonseca Award (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Expresso newspaper) with his book “Mr. Valéry” (Editorial Caminho) and the Poetry Award of Portuguese Writers Association, with his book “Investigations. Novalis.” (Editora Difel). He published the following novels: “A man: Klaus Klump” (November 2003, Editorial Caminho), “Joseph Walser´s machine” (April 2004, Editorial Caminho)and Biblioteca (April 2004, Campo das Letras).)
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Garden
There are no precious stones, there are no safes,
nor buried treasures to play pirates.
None talks with each other - dumb, you'll say, or uninterested.
The elements here present have certain colours,
one form or other, smell, and no more.
None of them values the extraordinary invention of the alphabet,
nor the latest novelty in engineering.
Round here the word concrete is
indelicate.
They don't speak, that's true, but they hear perhaps.
They are recipients, yes: water and sweet words that make them grow
(the least useless ones in the dictionary.)
And they'll give out something, for sure, for thus the world was made:
of innumerable exchanges,
but what they give is not known, it's only felt: they give beauty.
Yes, flowers, weeds circumscribed to their place
- the one of inconsequential meanness -
bushes undecided between growing further
or staying as they are looking closely
at ants and other friendly species.
And also: four tall trees. Here is the garden.
However, this one's authority doesn't come from the trees,
but from small details.
For example: the business man goes around
not to tread on a minute flower.
Will he be late for his meeting?
Translated by Ana Hudson
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