Light occurs when 
shadows are eliminated 
Shadows are what exist 
shadows have their own exhaustive life 
not on this or that side of light but in its very heart 
intensely loving     insanely beloved 
and they spread over the ground their arms of gray light 
that enter human eyes at the corners  
On the other hand the shadow called light 
doesn’t illuminate     objects     really 
objects live in the dark 
in a perpetual surrealist aurora 
which we cannot contact 
except the way lovers do 
with eyes closed 
and lamps in our fingers     lamps on our lips
"Poema" by Mário Cesariny, 1957
in "Pena Capital", Publisher: Assírio e Alvim, 2004
(translation to English by Richard Zenith, 2003: here)
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