Cover design for Verve Lasciva ("Lascivious Verve"), an erotic anthology published by Toma Aí Um Poema in 2026.

Bodies that read. The background is a page of text — the anthology's own introductory essay, set in a classic serif — over which ink stains spill in purple and black, organic shapes that suggest bodies, limbs, a mouth, without ever defining. The reader sees and doesn't see: the eroticism is in the suggestion, and the text underneath stays legible in the gaps, like someone peeking.

The cartouche. At the centre, a white label with cut corners, in the manner of old bottles, holds the title in a black condensed face and the line "Erotic anthology" in a light sans serif. It is the point of silence on a cover that overflows — and what keeps it readable on the shelf.

Inside, the whole stain. The endpapers repeat the composition in negative, purple on darker purple, with the text showing through. The open cover carries the flap with the TAUP introduction and, on the back, a poem by Francine Cruz framed in the same cartouche as the front.