Há um parabéns

Fomos cúmplices em vários crimes,
juntos visionámos ensaios de ópera
medimos instrumentação pesada,
falámos de tudo e de nada.

Num dia com marca no calendário,
digo-te (diz-me)
que a noite não é séria.

2011

Farewell

Awakening alone,
Proceeding on my own
To negotiate the day
As I’d done too long to say—

Now that I had a lover
That life of mine was over.
My next would be with her,
And doubtless happier—

Though fondness, truth to tell,
Inflected my farewell
To the solitude that I
Had been companioned by.

Daniel Brown