Page 4 - Reflectoem Magazine Issue 02

Friday

Maria do Sameiro Barroso
Y O U R H A N D S
(Portugal) is a medical doctor
and a multilingual poet,
translator, essayist and
researcher in Portuguese and
German Literature, translations
studies and History of Medicine.
She has authored over 40 books
of poetry, published in Portugal,
Brazil, Spain, France, Serbia,
M A R I A D O S A M E I R O Belgium, Albany, USA, and
translations and essays. Her
poems are translated into over
B A R R O S O
twenty languages. She is the
literary
recipient of numerous
distinctions.
I lie down over windows of music,
I drink from the trough of the angels.
A feverish star glows in a faraway
paradise.
I lie down over crazy windows,
forgetting everything,

just listening to the harps
and tambourines of the moon.
Somewhere debris from fog,
grey from winters galaxies
is hanging around;
- and crows dying in purple
floating gangrene.
Mysterious herbs are burning
in the wind.
Listening to the sound of shamanic
drums, the blue of many centuries
comes over me.
I lie down on white windows,
over the ash, the tears
and a glow of fear.
In the trepanned sphere of the night,
tubes of memory are opening
in breaths of ancient music.

Greedy carnivorous flowers
are hiding in the dark,
and my face shines like a green collage.
I look at the bed of the trees, bushes,
flowers,
and the words come out like milky agates:
- their magic bands hiding
your hands,
illegible manuscripts
in the oxymorons of the light.