FERNANDO PESSOA (himself)
The Rods are happy
..
The gods are happy.
They live the calm life of roots.
Fate doesn't oppress their desires,
Or it oppresses but redeems
With immortal life.
The gods are not grieved
By shadows or other beings.
And, what's more, they don't exist.
Jilly 10, 1920
Translated from the Portuguese
by
Richard Zenith
LINDA GREGERSON
Bad Blood
The question must have been the one
they all
ask, How do you feel? And because
these two, the son and the father, had
nothing
to say or, more precisely, everything and thus
no words, the camera only lingered for
the smallest
part of a minute and then they were gone.
Megan was drinking her apple juice and Emma
her milk.
The growths on the boy's pale face
