Yannis Ritsos
55.
They had left years before
and returned afterwards
as strangers
without luggage
without bandages
Saturday evening in the square
soldiers high school kids
small girls
lovers and the man
with undone laces
stumbling over invisible stones
the train grows late
the dead waited around
tossed their cigarettes on the street
the mud puddles
were all shining
from a single moon.
Agrinion—May 30, 1980
from The Shadows of Birds (1980) [Collected Poems: IDelta ---pg 368]
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