MARCELO
Esse termo que você inventou é sensacional: envelhescência. Porque nós temos
dificuldade de definir essa fase.

MARIO
Porque não tem nome. Da fase madura vira velho. Aí comecei a perceber:
É infância, adolescência, maturidade, depois cai pra velhice. Tem que ter um [nome].

Provoca (10/11/2026)
Peço a Deus,
em socorro da minha fraqueza,
abrevie esses dias e me conceda um rosto
de velha mãe cansada, de avó boa,
não me importo. Aspiro mesmo
com impaciência e dor.

- Adélia Prado, Páscoa
A spider walking
in circles is celebrating
the birthday of logic.

- Les Murray
Fish head-down in a bucket
wave their helpless fan feet.

- Les Murray
Two linen handkerchiefs
Jane Hirshfield

How can you have been dead twelve years
and these still
I know you think I’ve forgotten
Jane Hirshfield

but today
in rain

without coat without hat
A hand holds one power,
whose exercise requires the hand be empty.

- Jane Hirshfield
In praise of being peripheral
Jane Hirshfield

Without philosophy,
tragedy,
history,

a gray squirrel
looks
very busy.

Light as a soul
released
from a painting by Bosch,
its greens
and vermilions stripped off it.

He climbs a tree
that is equally ahistoric.

His heart works harder.
silence stitches itself
around hopes, thoughts, and words

- jane hirshfield
A cottony fate
Jane Hirshfield

Long ago, someone
told me: avoid or.

It troubles the mind
as a held-out piece of meat disturbs a dog.

Now I too am sixty.
There was no other life.
Relieved
f.s. yousaf

I am thankful for the ones
that have seen the most of me,
and stayed.
I am thankful for the ones
Who left
Before knowing all of me.
Every day I try to fight my own
brokenness. But once you are forgotten,
it’s not so bad: a heart broken
joins another chorus. Can you hear
the chorus speak? Can you bear
it? The words of apparitions do not belong
to a language. They flit over pines, meaningless,
and shed their skins in your hands.

- Sally Wen Mao
It is on the stage of contaminated desires that we are most pressed
to reconsider the politics of recognition.

- Anne Anlin Cheng
O essencial é saber ver,
Saber ver sem estar a pensar,
Saber ver quando se vê,
E nem pensar quando se vê,
Nem ver quando se pensa.

- Alberto Caeiro citado em Marmita (2024)
determinar o Não Eu por meio do Eu
- Byung-Chul Han, Filosofia do zen-budismo