The window panes make the refraction of the flying light towards the horizon

looking for the night

and the illuminated windows of the empty buildings.

The purple light

watched from far away

is from the spilled blood

in the buildings' facades

gently

right now yes

inhabited by shadows.

A vidraça refracta a luz que voa em direcção ao horizonte

A luz púrpura

para quem a vê à distância

é do sangue vertido

docemente

nas fachadas dos prédios

agora sim

habitados por sombras.

by Armando TABORDA, in "SINFONIA EM DOR MENOR", Edição Escola de Mar, 2007

(post 1st edition, 2007; 2nd edition, 2017: 3rd edition, 2018; 4th edition, 2022)

(photo taken from Internet - published under the fair use doctrine for noncommercial educational puroses)