- Pamenar Press
Virna Teixeira
Updated: Sep 12, 2019
Virna Teixeira was born in Brazil. She is a poet, translator and a doctor. She lives in London and runs a small press specialized in Brazilian poetry, Carnaval Press. She is also the editor of online poetry magazine Theodora (www.theodorazine.com). She has published several chapbooks and books of poetry in Latin America, Portugal and UK. Her new collection of poems, to be published by Pamanar Press, explores issues on gender and identity.
VIRNA TEIXEIRA
trans. Shelly Bhoil
I pass by the club
wearing a balaclava
the candies have
exploded already
several having escaped
in spaceships
my muse
is a non-binary
rubber doll
with a black mask
and icy blonde
ponytails
I pump up
her breasts
her hips
I paint her eyes
with a green pencil
I dress over
my catsuit
a latex corset
we are extreme
and incognito
my doll and I
tied melted
dressed for pleasure
in a fugitive moment
between shadows
and the northern lights

Shelly Bhoil is an Indian poet and scholar, living in Brazil. Her forthcoming works include an edited reference book "Resistant Hybridities: New Narratives of Exile Tibet" (Lexington Books, US) and her book of poems in Portuguese translation.
