Fado de Pessoa [English translation]

A Pessoan fado

In a neighbourhood of Lisbon

A Lusitanian poem

In the words of Camões

A seagull on land

A subject predicate

A port forgotten

A boat moored

The wind takes them

Mere words

Guards in its chest

The ingenuity

Figure of speech

Your voice in the prow

Of a verse already spent

In the look of a person

A perfect phrase

And a lingering kiss

An open door

Sin brings odour

A guitar with yearning

Heard in the doorways

In a joyful city

Overlooking the docks

The wind takes them

Mere words

Guards in its chest

The ingenuity

Figure of speech

Your voice in the prow

Of a verse already spent

In the look of a person