Merely, an
iodine smell
floats around my
nostrils, and reconstitutes
the transparent water
stumbling
against the quay,
where
fishes' embryos give off casual strokes of tail.
Then envelops
me with the smell of roasted sardines ,
in tortuous,
village streets.
And the tower
of the church raised
A stream of oil paintings, Madame
Quiroga's
inn. Welcoming Machado. The other
stream, that of
bleeding.
Sometimes, we are hardly
on the road, the
landscape fades.
We
find ourselves
in the lap of emptiness.
Behind us,
the most immortal pictures are insignificant.
That is the waste
wildernes of our
life, amnesic.
Such
as dewdrops which we would like to eternalize,
to materialize, to
surprise. But they fade away under our fingers
as dreams.