Diaries of Exile by Yannis Ritsos

Author:Yannis Ritsos
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Steerforth Press

I can’t, though. And yet I’ve always liked observatories –

a dark staircase, the clock, the telescope,

those snapshots of stars in postures entirely domestic,

swordless Orion, pants down,

Berenice covered in freckles, unwashed, frumpy,

a totally bourgeois kitchen, transported

to metaphysical ground – coffee pots, jugs, pans

grater, salt shaker, baking dishes, tiny specks

of white, radiating slightly, hanging

on the smoke-stained walls of night. Someone said:

numbers, numbers, light years, centuries, league on league. I didn’t listen.

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