Ana Marques Gastão is a Portuguese poet, essayist, and researcher at the University of Lisbon. She is currently the assistant editor of Colóquio Letras, a literary journal published by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. She has authored many books of poetry, including Nocturnos (2002), Nós/Nudos (2004), Lápis Mínimo (2008), and Adornos (2011).
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Iron-Red Tea
Were your body a teapot, sleek
and slender, face unseen
and hands like iron-red stems,
were your mouth to release a roofless
wind d…
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