Salmon Croquettes With No Egg

José de Sousa Saramago

© 1991 M. Sonseca. Lisbon

in memory a river where boats sail

childhood, with arched branches

restless

departing on water

curved blades.


A rhythmic pounding of

oars in the silence of the smooth morning

white waves are

aside with the sound of crumpled silk .




There is a sunrise at the exact site,

at the time that more account of a life,

an awakening of the eyes and touch,

a thirst craving not abolished.




There is a picture of water and

grief that erupts from the bottom of this report,

and everything is open in the singing river

counts portrait of an old story.

J. Saramago