For window shines, from Greek Women Poets, translated by Eleni Fourtouni.
from The Homestead / by Melpo Axiote
–What secret
does the sea hold? What answer?
We know nothing
20th-Century Greek Poetry
DPF / Ritsos
For the passing moment, from Poem A Day, Volume 2, edited by Laurie Sheck.
from Miniature / by Yannis Ritsos (1909-1990), translated by Edmund Keeley
like yellow wheels for a very small carriage
made for a child’s fairy tale
DPF / Cavafy
For crowns and scrolls, from A Book of Luminous Things: an international anthology of poetry, edited by Czeslaw Milosz.
from Waiting for the Barbarians / by Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933)
Why are they carrying elegant canes
beautifully worked in silver and gold?
DPF / Dimoula
For statues. This one’s from Greek Women Poets, ed. by Eleni Fourtouni (1978).
from Mark of Recognition / by Kiki Dimoula, b. 1931
You can’t even
weigh a few raindrops in your hands,
or pick a daisy.
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