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Odysseus Elytis
HOLY SATURDAY, 25
ENTERING MY SLEEPLESSNESS last nightjust briefly, for a moment, the little goddess
with the mauve ribbon smiled at me
from a lad she’s always passed me secrets
Then she vanished floating off to the right
going to empty the bin with my waste
- the soul’s cigarette-ends and poem-ends -
there where haughty and full of past youth
the sea simmers.
From: Journal of an unseen april
Publisher: Ypsilon publications, Athens, 1978
Publisher: Ypsilon publications, Athens, 1978
Holy Saturday, 25
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Holy Saturday, 25
HOLY SATURDAY, 25
ENTERING MY SLEEPLESSNESS last nightjust briefly, for a moment, the little goddess
with the mauve ribbon smiled at me
from a lad she’s always passed me secrets
Then she vanished floating off to the right
going to empty the bin with my waste
- the soul’s cigarette-ends and poem-ends -
there where haughty and full of past youth
the sea simmers.
From: Journal of an unseen april
Publisher: 1978, Ypsilon publications, Athens
Publisher: 1978, Ypsilon publications, Athens
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