Extract from longer piece for 5 voices - 
[No words, no words - collective noun for a group - no words, just alphabet soup.]

We are a great deal, a sultry pulse, just fumes and gazes to the ether, nothing measured in half, half hearted squints, and rumours that did not really meet it, if they did then it was not you, and we were gargoyles, and fountains, and the grade one, grade two, and we did not list, no need for listing, not then, not with you, we were sacrosanct , someone was solving all our problems, not me, not the answer then, not the answer now, and when prayers dont come then there is something more that you must do. But if you- if you were the architect, if you were the saviour that you claimed to be then maybe you would not give me so many reasons not to believe all these things. 
But I was always blessed by you, and I am redeemed-
If I were burrowing, to burrow, to dig, to delve, to turn earth, for you, to make the soil turn, to make the earth fit for life to grow, if that was this, then that would be all that I would sow, but you are not looking for clod, not my clod, not what you want is it, and I am arable, we are pastures, you, look, furrows, look furrows, you wish you fell, and I am fallen, swollen, corn, maize, corn maize it is all the same. And we did not want it your barley, wheat, corn, oats , grain, barley, barley, full pit, full of it you are so full of shit sometimes that it is not enough to make me spit, but you follow on anyway don't you, just keep folding this linen in shapes, of swans, of tulips, of napkins in the crispest line, to make the table a little more ornate, for the sake of the ones who don't even care about the effort you make.

Gerund -  © laurence.ag

You shape 
tu moldas

you make
tu fazes

always 
sempre

all day
Todo o dia 

this path
Este trajecto

you tread
que pisas

in paths
Em trajectos 

in paths in patterns round and round 
Em trajectos, em padrões, às voltas e voltas
 
to shapes
até às formas

to the humming box with cold white light
até à caixa com luz branca fria  à zumbir 

to the little box that spins things round
Até à caixa mais baixa que gira com coisas às voltas
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you open these things
Abres estas coisas 

and all these things come in
E outras coisas entram
-
you don’t seem to ever stop 
Parece que nunca páras

you see things others do not
Vês coisas que outros não vêem 

a crumb
Uma migalha 

a speck
grão

a splinter
 fragmento

a fleck
salpico 

a little filament 
Um fiozinho
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all to be aligned
Para serem alinhados

to be organised
Organizados

the things you see that are not there are more important to you than the things that are here that you can not see.
As coisas que vês que não estão lá são mais importantes para ti do que as que aqui estão que não consegues ver

Particles
Partículas 

Spores
Esporas 

Aerosol
Aerrosóis
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All of this in your own biome, your home home.
Tudo isto no teu próprio bioma, a tua casa casa
 
Your safe place
O teu lugar seguro 

sanctuary
Santuário 

hermitage
mosteiro

that You shape
tu moldas

you make
que fazes

always
Sempre

all day
Todo o dia

The home 
casa

that you never come home to
Para onde nunca voltas para casa

never root
onde Não enraízas

never stop
Nunca páras

no trees - no roots
Sem árvores - sem raizes

you can not seem to grow anything here in these barren grooves
Pareces nada semear nestas ranhuras estéreis

nothing makes shoots - not you
Nada cria rebentos - nem tu

- and this is what you think is needed -
E é isto que pensas ser necessário 

to make this shrine now so
Para tornar este altar agora tão - 

 -anadyne
Anódino

-sterilised
Esterilizado

-everything is pasteurised, disinfected, sanitised 
Tudo é pasteurizado, desinfectado, higienizado

-left to purify in ultraviolet light
Deixado para purificar na luz ultravioleta
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we survive
Sobrevivemos 

Nos sobrevivemos 
We survive 
-

laurence a.g

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