the body stretches
the lines of
the white sheets
what else would bring you inside
other than the pose I strike
sitting right here?
Lucia Leao is a Brazilian writer and translator who has been living in Florida, USA, for 13 years. Her first collection of short stories, Ensaios a Dois, was published in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2001. She is also the co-author of O Primeiro Beijo, a book for young adults that was published in Brazil in 2005. Leao has been working as a translator for more than 15 years; she is married and has a nine-year old son who is fully bilingual (English and Portuguese).