Doris Lessing
Talvez porque hoje é sábado, talvez porque chove lá fora, ou, quem sabe?, porque fui o garoto que ficou do lado de fora da janela, todo molhado, olhando fascinado para a menina descuidadamente sonhadora no salão de Doris Lessing. Por isso ou por aquilo tentei traduzir este poema.
Fábula
Quando olho para trás
me parece recordar o canto,
embora sempre
houvesse silêncio naquele largo e cálido salão.
Impenetráveis, essas
paredes, acreditávamos,
escuras como escudos
antigos. A luz
brilhava na cabeça ou
nas pernas esparramadas
com indolência por
uma menina. E as vozes baixas
subiam no silêncio a
se perder como a água.
Assim, tudo era manso
e morno como uma mão,
se algum de nós
corresse as cortinas
uma chuva espiralada
soprava lá fora com descuido.
Às vezes serpenteava um
vento que fazia dançar as chamas
e um jogo de sombras deslizava
pelas paredes,
ou uivava um lobo lá
fora na noite vasta,
e ao sentir nossa
carne gelada nos colávamos.
Mas a dança continuou
por um tempo
— assim me parece
agora:
formas lentas que se
moviam com vagar através
de charcos de luz
como uma rede dourada no chão.
Assim deve ter prosseguido
para sempre como um sonho.
Mas entre um ano e o
próximo - um vento novo soprou?
A chuva apodreceu as
paredes finalmente?
Os focinhos dos lobos
vieram empurrar os raios caídos?
Isso foi há muito
tempo,
mas às vezes me
lembro do salão cortinado
e ouço vozes jovens e
distantes cantando.
* * *
Fable
When I look back I seem to remember singing.
Yet it was always silent in that long warm room.
Impenetrable, those walls, we thought,
Dark with ancient shields. The light
Shone on the head of a girl or young limbs
Spread carelessly. And the low voices
Rose in the silence and were lost as in water.
Yet, for all it was quiet and warm as a hand,
If one of us drew the curtains
A threaded rain blew carelessly outside.
Sometimes a wind crept, swaying the flames,
And set shadows crouching on the walls,
Or a wolf howled in the wide night outside,
And feeling our flesh chilled we drew together.
But for a while the dance went on –
That is how it seems to me now:
Slow forms moving calm through
Pools of light like gold net on the floor.
It might have gone on, dream-like, for ever.
But between one year and the next – a new wind blew?
The rain rotted the walls at last?
Wolves’ snouts came thrusting at the fallen beams?
It is so long ago.
But sometimes I remember the curtained room
And hear the far-off youthful voices singing.
When I look back I seem to remember singing.
Yet it was always silent in that long warm room.
Impenetrable, those walls, we thought,
Dark with ancient shields. The light
Shone on the head of a girl or young limbs
Spread carelessly. And the low voices
Rose in the silence and were lost as in water.
Yet, for all it was quiet and warm as a hand,
If one of us drew the curtains
A threaded rain blew carelessly outside.
Sometimes a wind crept, swaying the flames,
And set shadows crouching on the walls,
Or a wolf howled in the wide night outside,
And feeling our flesh chilled we drew together.
But for a while the dance went on –
That is how it seems to me now:
Slow forms moving calm through
Pools of light like gold net on the floor.
It might have gone on, dream-like, for ever.
But between one year and the next – a new wind blew?
The rain rotted the walls at last?
Wolves’ snouts came thrusting at the fallen beams?
It is so long ago.
But sometimes I remember the curtained room
And hear the far-off youthful voices singing.

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