I MARRIED YOU
I married you
for all the wrong reasons,
charmed by your
dangerous family history,
by the innocent muscles,
bulging
like hidden weapons
under your shirt,
by your naive ties, the colors
of painted scraps of sunset.
I was charmed too
by your assumptions
about me: my serenity—
that mirror waiting to be
cracked,
my flashy acrobatics with
knives
in the kitchen.
How wrong we both were
about each other,
and how happy we have been.
Linda Pastan
Casei contigo
pelas razões erradas,
encantada com a tua
perigosa história familiar,
os músculos inocentes,
salientes
como armas escondidas
sob a tua camisa,
as tuas gravatas ingénuas, das
cores
de bocados pintados de pôr do
sol.
Fui também atraída
pelas tuas suposições
sobre mim: a minha serenidade –
aquele espelho à espera de ser
quebrado,
as minhas acrobacias exageradas
com facas
na cozinha.
Que errados estávamos ambos
sobre o outro
e que felizes temos sido.
(Trad. fjcc)
