Arrival

And yet one arrives somehow,
finds himself loosening the hooks of
her dress
in a strange bedroom -
feels the autumn
dropping its silk and linen leaves
about her hankles
The tawdry veined body emerges
twisted upon itself
like a winter wind...!

William Carlos Williams, Antologia Breve, José Agostinho Baptista (trad.), Assirio & Alvim, 1993