voyage jade beginnings and endings are only points of debarkation. the voyage is everything in between. 980904 ... coldtea I left him with his face glowing in the television blues and reds I ran off with the united sufferers off headwounds We made animals out of the spots of sky and picked the soured dandelions until the fireflies came out so I gathered my shampoo parting gifts and returned home. 990224 ... Joana. VIAGEM Iremos juntos separados, as palavras mordidas uma a uma, taciturnas, cintilantes - ó meu amor, constelação de bruma, ombro dos meus braços hesitantes. Esquecidos, lembrados, repetidos, na boca dos amantes que se beijam no alto dos navios; desfeitos ambos, ambos inteiros, no rasto dos peixes luminosos, afogados na voz dos marinheiros. --------------------------------------- We shall go together separate, the words bitten one by one, taciturn, sparkling - o my love, constellation of mist, shoulder of my hesitant arms. Forgotten, remembered, repeated, in the mouth of the lovers who kiss at the top of the ships; tattered both, both whole, in the trail of the luminous fish, drowned in the sailor's voice. {Eugénio de Andrade} 001124 what's it to you? who go blather from