Monday, January 26, 2009

Clay: 11

Yannis Ritsos

Incredible—he said—
incredible—
and had fallen to his knees.
It rained.
The two bicycles were left
inexplicably
under the trees.

Athens—January 17, 1978

from Clay (1980) [Collected Poems: IDelta ---pg 85]

1 comment:

Víctor said...

Congratulations and thanks for the blogg. I think that Yannis Ritsos is one the biggest poet in the XX century.
Víctor García Vázquez
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