Day 2, we walked from Arco to Barcelos. There was, as a fellow caminhante said, mucho calor. (I have no idea if that is correct Portuguese, but the meaning was clear and accurate.) Today I have some found poems for you ((or stolen, if you like), some translated to the best of my ability.
If the world is a book
then those who do not travel
read only one page.
St Augustine
(Neatly written in French on a waypost.)
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WALK
EAT
SLEEP
REPEAT
(In English on a gum tree – which were myriad)
—–
Japanese Mini Tractors for Sale
(In Portuguese on the fence of a yard containing half a dozen very small tractors)
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A road sign:
a plump cow in silhouette
inside a red warning triangle.
(We saw no cows.
They had been warned off.)
——
Street names:
Rua de São Salvador
Rua Senhora de Imaculada Conceinçao
Rua da Cruz de São João.
Here you are what you are
in relationship to Catholicism
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If you look closely you can see the Emerging Artist in this picture
Another road sign:
Caution
Pilgrim Traffic.
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Find out what’s the least you can do
(What I think the Portuguese says on a little tile in Barcelos, attributed to Ferdinand Pessoa)
And tonight everything is sore.
Me fail? I fly! 