1.
Diverse things align themselves in memory
on some shelf labeled: Recife.
Things with the heading of the memory,
one time things and properly indexed;
and also in the index: dense clippings,
very legible, in their simple forms.
2
Some of them, and part of waat already counts:
a vented entry, a sign with umber four;
the coblestones of some streets
in elegant lines, though roughly hewn;
the warp of tiles, edges sharpened
as if, overhanging, it was also made to cut.
The high-rises, page-turners in the story teller,
various columns for the folio, printed.
Things of heading, firm models:
like this, as from the long image of each story.