As borboletas queimadas
Um poema de Nasim Basiri
The Burnt Butterflies
With the movement of your eyes
Anslad and Tayfvn giants
Were moving the chariots of fire patches
Your tear drops
Were spreading out the pieces of the sun
In the black cemetery of Atena
And the burnt pieces of volcanic Gods
Were descending down
On your cheeks
Your wings were opening
Like the vastness of the world
With your breath
All volcanoes of the world
Were beginning to tremble
The myths were burning
To alight your southern legend
The burnt fishes were reviving
Passing and dying in your arms
The burnt insects were
Kissing your lips and
Swallowing the pieces of fire
The fire chariots were disjointing…
The sunshine and the burnt flowers
Were dying
In the burnt patches of your hands
With the memory of your hair
As borboletas queimadas
Tradução: Lucas van Hombeeck
Com o movimento dos teus olhos
Encélado e Tifão, os gigantes
Mexiam os remendos das carruagens de fogo
Teus pingos de lágrima
Espalhavam os pedaços de sol
No cemitério preto de Atena
E as partes queimadas dos Deuses
vulcânicos
Iam descendo então
Nas tuas bochechas
Tuas asas abriam
Feito o imenso do mundo
Com teu hálito
Os vulcões do mundo
Começavam a tremer
Os mitos queimavam
Pr’alumiar tua lenda ao sul
Peixes queimados reanimando
Partindo e morrendo nos teus braços
Insetos queimados
Beijavam teus lábios
Engolindo pedaços de fogo
As carruagens de fogo se desmontando…
O dia e as flores queimadas
Iam morrendo
Nos pedaços queimados da tua mão
Junto à memória dos teus cabelos
Sobre a autora
Nasim Basiri é escritora, poetisa e ativista de direitos das mulheres. Ela viveu, estudou e trabalhou em diferentes continentes e, atualmente, é doutoranda e professora assistente em Estudos de Mulheres, Gênero e Sexualidade, na Universidade do Estado de Oregon, EUA.
Os trabalhos literários e de pesquisa de Nasim retratam e examinam a violência sexual e de gênero, assim como outras formas de opressão, na vida e nas experiências de mulheres, a partir de uma perspectiva feminista.
About the Author
Nasim Basiri is an Iranian writer, poet and women’s rights activist. She has studied, worked and lived in different continents and is currently studying as a doctorate student, and working as instructor and teaching assistant in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University, in the US.
Nasim’s research and literary works are focused on examining and portraying gender and sexual violence and other forms of oppression in women’s lives and experiences from a feminist perspective.