The Absence - Tess Gallagher

Vou ao resgate meio aleatório de poemas escondidos em livros meio velhos da minha biblioteca.

Vai este de Tess Gallagher, do livro Instructions to the Double (Graywolf Press, 1976). Logo vem

versão!

The Absence

I am writing this out of vengeance

which is a hurt given to the self

in the name of another. It has to do

with becoming a purpose

which is an absence not unlike

a gun. A man fired one

into an ocean in back of my house.

It was an act of bravery. The birds

went free because it was my

back porch and an ocean

behind it. He knew a target

when he saw one, those fists loose

in his eye. That is the way of targets,

one as good as another until

you decide. The ocean was there

and a recognition of the gun

for the ocean and the need too

of the man to leave himself out

which is a way of beginning

again. I am writing this

out of vengeance and the word

because has nothing to do

with it. The reason forgets

itself. The man has fired.