Message in a Bottle

First published on this website on 4 November 2014. First published in print in Afagando a Face de Lorca [Stroking Lorca’s Face], edited by Francisco José Craveiro de Carvalho, Lajes do Pico, Portugal: Companhia das Ilhas [Island Company], 2020, pages 184 (English) and 185 (Portuguese translation by the editor). This poem also appeared privately in Ninety-Seven Poems in 1984. Originally written sometime before 1984.       +       +       +