SUBSTANCE

By Pedro Du Bois (Balneário Camboriú, SC)

(Marina Du Bois, English version)

I translate (words are gifts)

the immortality (collected works)

in result (illusion of hope)

of rythimic verses (eloquence)

in understanding I redo gestures

and designate myself the first (only species)

to expand articulated sound

I know nothing: I know from the planet

digged fragments (history

in superimposed spaces: remains)

opposed in coordinated efforts

I am condemned to endeavor (bellicose

lying warrior stregth

from failure before the eyes).