Antonio Roberval Miketen


Lesson of Light

I Suddenly the silence turns into light, as if strains of music, as if a subject in blue. II To find light within phrases, the harmony, the sound of the universe, so that we can hear the silence, our own human silence, so that we can, poet, step on a page of blood. III Almost visible touchable pink of the poem, an ogive, bewitched, on the shoulders of a dove. IV We forsake many things because we grow towards the sun. Amongst what we leave behind, without piety, without remorse, exists the innocence, the child; like a sad little bird, which sings in the bare light the elegy of conscience. V What music, what music fades away in the distance, ruled by the wings of the bird on the horizon? VI Write only what is brief, in the short light of our life, that never disturbs the children and does not wet the margins of one’s vision. So we need your notebooks, to dive among the seaweeds, within the deepest roots that will light the green of the sea. VII Comes from the lucidness, the shine, the breast, the slow puberty, within the center of scare. VIII The pupil of a gazelle tears the rocks in the horizon. Violet, the reflexion of the light, to the east side of the sky, where the deepest blue hides within the womb. IX In Autumn: the flicks of dry pulps; on the remains of the life blood, the richness of the fruit. X In the silence which opens among the bell knell, there is a dead little bird, to replace the child.

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