Poetry
Autumn/ November 1967
Rainy-Season: Sub-Tropics
GIANT TOAD: I am too big, too big by far. Pity me. My eyes bulge and hurt. They are my one great beauty, even so. They see too much, above, […]
Five Stories from Hot Countries
Summer 1964
A Hen
From the Portuguese. She was a Sunday hen. She was still alive only because it was not yet 9.00 o’clock. She seemed calm. Since Saturday she had cowered in a […]
Five Stories from Hot Countries
Summer 1964
Marmosets
From the Portuguese. The first time we had a marmoset was just before New Year’s. We were without water and without a maid, people were lining up to buy meat, […]
Five Stories from Hot Countries
Summer 1964
The Smallest Woman in the World
From the Portuguese. In the depths of Equatorial Africa the French explorer, Marcel Pretre, hunter and man of the world, came across a tribe of surprisingly small pygmies. Therefore he […]