Ângela Almeida was born in Horta, Faial, Açores.  She has been publishing poetry since the beginning of the 1980’s.  She has been involved in many literary projects, including directing the publishing house Jornal da Cultura.  She now publishes the cultural Magazine Fórum Cultural.  Besides poetry, she has also published essays and narrative prose.  She makes her home in Ponta Delgada.

return to me all the silences of the face.

the gasping song of sleep, the unawaken mornings.

return everything to me.

i could talk to you of the lava where you rested and of the humid afternoons

of skin in the waters.

the bodies growing in the veil of the waves.

return to me all the silences, the sad pause of the hand on

the night.

the fugacity of the eyes upon the field.

i could talk to you of the peace of an island and of the arms upon the

happiness of the dunes, the twilight advancing upon the fortress wall.