on the other side

on the other side a tower of stone and iron
vertical and white
the taller the tower, the deeper and wider and darker the pit
which the construction frames
on a journey between visible and invisible things

hanging from nothingness
a re ecting, transparent and swaying surface
reveals and binds both directions
to the humming breeze that pervades it
with the whisper of the season

in a ver
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Lisboa, 2002, p. 73
translation by Rui Pires Cabral