From one angle I see you just like a dried-up breast
From another just like a belly from whose navel
Still hangs the umbilical cord
You are red as the divine love
Inside you in the little seeds
Palpitates a prodigious life
Infinitely
And you remain so simple
Beside a knife
In a poor hotel room
(Manuel Bandeira)
More Poetry from Manuel Bandeira:
- Carlos Drummond de Andrade (with English translation) (Manuel Bandeira Poems)
- Vou-me embora pra Pas (Manuel Bandeira Poems)
- Brazilian Tragedy (Manuel Bandeira Poems)
- Pas (Manuel Bandeira Poems)
- Poetica (Manuel Bandeira Poems)
- Poetica (English) (Manuel Bandeira Poems)