Yannis Ritsos
43.
In the piazza of the church
the beautiful the downtrodden
a moonlit night
with his crutch he struck
his shadow on the marble—
the Metropolis clock
without any suspense
struck Twelve
unpoetic and
irrevocable.
Athens—May 16, 1980
from The Shadows of Birds (1980) [Collected Poems: IDelta ---pg 362]
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