Explore "Empathetic Poem" by Carlos Drummond de Andrade on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
What noise is that on the stairs? It's love coming to an end, it's the man who shut the door and hung himself with the curtain.
What noise is that on the stairs? It's Guiomar covering her eyes and blowing her nose like a horn.
It's the plates and pans in the pantry lit up by a still moon.
What noise is that on the stairs? It's the faucet dripping water, it's the indiscernible cursing of someone who lost the game while the music from the band keeps getting softer, softer.
What noise is that on the stairs? It's the virgin on a trombone, the child beating a drum, the bishop ringing a bell, and someone stifling the dinthat's leaping from my heart.