ABRUPTO

19.1.04


EARLY MORNING BLOGS 119

Hoje, o primeiro poema de “Sunday Morning” de Wallace Stevens, quando o dia ainda parece “wide water”. Já não é , mas parece.

Complacencies of the peignoir, and late
Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair,
And the green freedom of a cockatoo
Upon a rug mingle to dissipate
The holy hush of ancient sacrifice.
She dreams a little, and she feels the dark
Encroachment of that old catastrophe,
As a calm darkens among water-lights.
The pungent oranges and bright, green wings
Seem things in some procession of the dead,
Winding across wide water, without sound.
The day is like wide water, without sound,
Stilled for the passing of her dreaming feet
Over the seas, to silent Palestine,
Dominion of the blood and sepulchre.


(Wallace Stevens)

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