Yannis Ritsos
25.
Maybe deaf-mutes — we said—
speak in a different manner
hear in a different manner
for instance
an insect sometimes stops
but doesn't fly off
suspecting us of
a secret intimacy
or how forgotten toast
burns in the kitchen
but blackens the entire house
with its odor.
Athens—May 9, 1980
from The Shadows of Birds (1980) [Collected Poems: IDelta ---pg 349-353]
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