The dove for the cheina, Poem by Sebastião Alba

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 The dove for the cheina by Sebastião Alba

Points of view

intersect the bullets

and we rehearse the dove

by drawing it, curving its

back before flight,

dropping it into the pure prism

of the crowd's gazes

Soon a fleeting star

sticks to its beak

It will whirl in the sky between colossal columns

of mushrooms

and suns that inflect it

but nestled well in the hollow

cabin of feathers

with the key in our hand.