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Alceu Valença

JunhoJune

Alceu Valença · Sete Desejos Seven Wishes (1992)

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Composer: Alceu Valença

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Eu sei que é junho, o doido e gris seteiro

Com seu capuz escuro e bolorento

As setas que passaram com o vento

Zunindo pela noite, no telheiro

Eu sei que é junho!


Eu sei que é junho, esse relógio lento

Esse punhal de lesma, esse ponteiro,

Esse morcego em volta do candeeiro

E o chumbo de um velho pensamento


Eu sei que é junho, o barro dessas horas

O berro desses céus, ai, de anti-auroras

E essas cisternas, sombra, cinza, sul


E esses aquários fundos, cristalinos

Onde vão se afogar mudos meninos

Entre peixinhos de geléia azul

Eu sei que é junho!

Translation

I know it's June, the crazy and gray September

With its dark and moldy hood

The arrows that passed with the wind

Whizzing through the night, on the shed

I know it's June!


I know it's June, this slow clock

This slug dagger, this pointer,

This bat around the lamp

And the lead of an old thought


I know it's June, the clay of these hours

The bellow of these skies, oh, of pre-dawns

And these cisterns, shadow, ash, south


And these deep, crystalline aquariums

Where silent boys will drown

Among little blue jelly fish

I know it's June!

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