A Broken Man in Flower: versions of Yannis Ritsos by David Harsent
Author:David Harsent
Format: epub
At the ceremony of the ploughing of the fields
the priest would stoop to trace a cut
left by the first ploughshare
at the foot of the Acropolis and chant:
âNever refuse a stranger fire and water.
Never send a lost traveller the wrong way.
Never leave the dead unburied.
Never slaughter the bull that pulls the plough.â
Empty words, then as now.
Fire, yes, to burn your neighbourâs crop.
Water, yes, to flood his fields.
The bull is butchered and hangs in some thief âs barn
the apotropaic red ribbon round its neck.
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