one day time is over, the bicycle warps, the estuary climbs the mountain, and the libraries shut up, the lit side of the moon, the compasses-hands, that day, matches will be required, the salt mines, the poets' scriptures, the genealogy of roses.

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um dia o tempo acaba, a bicicleta empena, o estuário sobe a montanha, e calam-se as bibliotecas, o lado aceso da lua, os ponteiros das bússolas, nesse dia, irão fazer falta os fósforos, as minas de sal, as escrituras dos poetas, a genealogia das rosas.

by Daniel GONÇALVES (b. 1975), in "PRIVILÉGIOS DE SER PÁSSARO", Edição Confraria do Silêncio, 2016

(English translated by Armando TABORDA, 2017)

(photograph taken from Internet; edited by Armando TABORDA)