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Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person
A transelation of Alberto Caeiro / Fernando Pessoa's O Guardador de Rebanhos
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The Accidents (Merlín)
That day I went into the trees
—Give me nothing
My scope was interwoven
birds sang their low
cuckoo thing
easily a wave
Small insects rose up into the wave of
Openly
—Ábreme a luzporta!
Swimming in mere air or sheer air
not quite sure
—Could about be
Yet why put such words in a single monstrance?
Open as those trees
Our mermaid is
its long branches trail out to a leaf or vein
My mermaid is
bark’s integument so salutory to view
Give me nothing
Give me not this monstrance
The elements
For which I went today in morning
my mouth black
in the lightcup of the trees
