Today’s Poem: African Day, by Gloria de Sant’Ana
African Day
~Gloria de Sant’Ana
Translated from Portuguese by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver
The crows mark
long trajectories in the white day,
over the
heads of the black singers.
There is a scattered wind,
scratching in the leaves of the trees,
slow melodies
of old disgraces.
And traces of light
from a sun implied by still clouds
fall from the roofs
and beat on the stones.
Everything today is heavy
like an engraving of rhythmical attitude,
struck in glass panes
cut from the Bible.
