Poet’s Statement:

“Kino” explores intimacy through close observation: the changing color of eyes, breath, touch, and light. The poem uses amber gathered on wounded bark as a metaphor for desire, something tender, luminous, and shaped by contact. It is a poem about the quiet intensity of being seen and of looking deeply at another person.

• Listing ID: 39589
• Poetry Author's Name: Thaise Lis Nascimento
• Poem: Your eyes are small enough
  for my thumb to shade them both when I touch your brow.
  Brown — though brown is what they seem from far away;
  this close, something amber moves beneath,
  darkening whenever you look at my mouth.
  
  When you look at me, I lose the next word.
  When you look at me, your breathing changes first.
  When you look at me — no, I meant your lashes,
  the way they lower slowly when I lean towards you.
  
  Your knee is warm against the back of mine.
  One button of your shirt has come undone.
  I touch your cheek; you close one eye, then the other,
  as if my hand were brighter than the room.
  
  I think of kino gathered on wounded bark:
  dark at the centre, amber at its edges,
  still soft enough to keep the shape of touch.
  
  Your eyes — look, you've half-closed them again —
  two little drops of brown beneath your lashes.
  Stay like that.
  The light is beautiful on you.
• Poet's Bio: Thaise is a Brazilian writer with a background in Communication, Music, and Theatre, currently studying International Relations. She has taught Literature and worked in journalism, writing for newspapers, periodicals, and magazines, as well as in broadcasting. Today, she works as a writer and editor and is also a mother. She has been writing since the age of nine. Music has deeply shaped her writing since childhood, alongside a profound connection with nature. She has received literary awards in the Portuguese-speaking world and internationally, with recognition across South America and Europe.

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