Don't leave me

Jorge Adelar Finatto

to Chet Baker

Don´t leave me

provide the night

with your suplly

of affection

fill the desert

with your steps

in secret

give me back

the daintiness

of those days

give me once again

the diamond

of your

presence

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Poem from the book O habitante da bruma, Editora Mercado Aberto, Porto Alegre, 1998.

Foto: J. Finatto