Four Walls and the World

That year, I returned to Pico Island in the Azores. I wanted to meet the writer, poet and whale hunter, José Dias de Melo. I wanted to spend a few days by his side. But when I arrived I learned that he had fallen ill and was in hospital. Nobody could tell me when he would be back. So I decided to wait... I took with me one of his last books "Poeira do Caminho". I peruse it to pass the time. And if I listen, I hear his voice...