se numa rua estreita um poema: Imperativa

A exposição de retratos de Henri Cartier-Bresson que encontrei, por feliz acaso, em Évora, no Fórum Eugénio de Almeida [Rua Vasco da Gama, n.º 13]. Figurava, entre outros belíssimos retratos (Beckett, Ezra Pound ou Sartre) o meu retrato preferido de Truman Capote:

Setembro (Robert Hayden)

"Those winter sundays"
Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he'd call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices?

se numa rua estreita um poema

Imperativa

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Setembro (Robert Hayden)