A memory external to the body

not the one growing inside;

and that, since intended for the body,

carries corporeal presences.

So it is within this memory

that she, unexpectedly, is embodied

in the presence, thingness, volume

of a body, solidly there

and that is now dense volume

in the arms and held by them,

and that is now hollow volume

that surrounds and shelters the body

as something that was both dense

and hollow at the same time

that the body had, where it was

as if the having and the being were one.

Translated by Ricardo da Silveira Lobo Sternberg