In the cafe A Brasileira do Chiado
sat the plural Pessoa,
Fernando with a vacillating smiles
in its lips
They waited for words to pass among them
and the noise of machines
and silence
that tasted the mouths
silenced in the desert wharves.
(Thomas-John Parr)
(Thomas-John Parr)
1 comment:
I like the way this poem has evolved! Changing "a" to "the" would allow agreement between "the" and "smiles," or you could make "smiles" singular. Thanks for introducing me to Pessoa! LKMarshall
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