Fruits Games - by João Cabral de Melo Neto

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Fruits Games - by João Cabral de Melo Neto

Of fruit is your texture
and concrete so;
dense texture that the light
not cross.
Without transparency:
not clear water, but
honey, intense.

Intense is your texture
but not blind;
rather something that has light
own internal.
And you have the same
carnation sugar syrup
light and dark.

Bright Crystal
you possess internal
like to the air at summer
use in September.
And there in your skin
the sun of the summer fruit
brings in the Northeast.

It is Fruit of the Northeast
your skin:
same golden carnation.
solar and cheerful.
Fruit grown
rewashed in Recife
their windshield.

The fruits of Recife.
their family.
have the wood rod.
much more richer.
And the same hard
animal motor pulsating
like to one pulse.

Pernambuco Fruit
strained animal
fruit almost animal
meat and flesh.
Also those
more certain extent,
best recipe.

And your charm is
in your measurements,
Pernambuco fruit,
always concise.
And your secret
where for more than just you
body more tense.

You have at fruit that
size righteous.
not of all. at fruits
of Pernambuco.
Mangoes, mangabas
of Recife. Who knowing
more to draw them.

Are you a measured fruit.
well designed;
distinct in all of Jackfruit
or jenipapo.
You aren't aqueous
or fruit that flows
vague and formless.

You are drawn in
fine tip pencil.
such as cane sugar
that is pure line.
And emerge accurate.
confusion of multiple
their own straw.

You are so elegant as
a walking cane,
stripping naked leg
among the straw.
And you have the leg
the same metal sound
slender cane.

the same metal cane
tersa and burnished
possess, and also of Licania,
that is pure fiber.
But deep
much fiber breaks down
mucosa and wet.

Of pitomba you are.
the quality
fleshy, when secret
of your flesh.
Also of ingá
fresh moss to the tooth
and to thumb.

You are not a fruit-fruit
just to the tooth,
you are neither a fruit flower
fragrance only.
Fruit track:
for all the senses,
for bed and board.

You are a multiple fruit,
but simple logic;
you are nothing of metaphysics
or metaphorical.
Are not "the fruit"
nor for Seed
I not seen you much like that.

Do not see in seed
future and pregnant;
either vitamin
caste dragees.
As you I see just
what you enjoy,
not what feeding us.

Fruit that tastes,
not feeding:
thus describe better
your emergency.
Urgency that
fruit that invites us
to merge in it.

You have to look easy
inviting
Fruit much sugar
those that gives ant.
And you have the appeal
tof sapote and sapodilla
those that giving bat.

Fruit is the attraction
you have, the same;
you have fruit, attraction
straight and helpless.
Always so strong
the flesh and shoulder naked
the young fruit.

Are young fruit flesh
and soul Alacra,
diverse oiti-koro
because spicy.
And, tamarind,
cues on who you know
teeth thinner.

Are meat fruit acid
meat and soul;
different from papaya,
sad, stagnant.
It is the nervous
hog that you have the flavor
and the nerve-exposed.

Are fruit flesh burning,
always Agraz,
as guava, guabiraba,
passion.
Also mangaba.
cues on who you know
lime, rubber.

There are fruit that time
or glass of water
wash our mouth
as if nothing.
Never cherry,
washing the Iínguae headquarters
all lags.

Acid and unripe, but
now proclaim
sugar mature
you will one day.
And has your charm
the mild flavor of rotten
the young flesh.

Larger headquarters and
ripe fruit
you start to become corrupt
in their sugar.
Acid and unripe:
However, who knows you
only the most established.

At the clean taste of cashew
beach and sun,
together the mango morbid
shadow and languor.
Know both
contrasts in your fruit
Pernambuco.

No doubt, you're really fruit
of Pernambuco:
graviola, mangaba
and some sleeves.
Of both sugar
still appear unripe
already be corrupt.

You're so unripe fruit
and not so unripe,
and that is how I see
the long and ever.
And we mean well
Some to say you are rotten and other
say unripe.