Flávia Rocha is a Brazilian poet, journalist and translator living In São Paulo. . She has an M.F.A program in Writing at Columbia University and was the co-editor, with Edwin Torres, of Cities of Chance: an Anthology of New Poetry from the United States and Brazil. She co-founded Acedemia Internacional de Cinema in Sao Paulo. Her first collection of poetry, The Blue House Around Noon was released by Travessa dos Editores in 2004.
Error System
Nothing that will repair a mistake just made.
Almost , late, almost cold.Threshold of the gesture
[that will free one from hunger,
No mater who arrives first, every one will have
[a chance to look through the cracks
The smell of the see spreads along the coast, enters
[the doorways, the cracks around the tiles,
And is mixed with the essence of each house,
[each occupant.

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Selective Memory

Any torrent
will drain us underground

hands drowning in a solution
of clay, water,parts of flowers.

To decat us
from everything we know

and lead us astray
among things other than flowers.

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