Friday, January 16, 2009

Clay: 3

Yannis Ritsos

Black trunks
wet trees
fog.
Rifles of hunters
crashing rocks
a motorcycle.
How long will this weather last.
Far off, a red column
can be made out
perfectly.

Athens—January 15, 1978

from Clay (1980) [Collected Poems: IDelta ---pg 82]

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