Yannis Ritsos – Poems, Volume I

Morning Fog

Vaguely without any purpose blindly

without any pressure of blindness or feeling

of disengagement The immense view –

roofs and roofs TV antennas spectrums

of time and of the clouds on shut windows

the rusted drainpipes the kiosk owner

selling aspirins paper and envelopes matches

cigarettes clothespins he’s completely framed by

the hanging newspapers like a picture of

a bankrupt king when he is busy

with house chores when he hangs

a worn-out shirt he washed himself

while in the kitchen next to the small stove

he has left his big gold ring

with its beautiful stone with which he used to seal

so many foreign decrees without reading them

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