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2023 Longlist Announcement

Night Breeze

I shall leave behind all my expectations so that a true

reason will be born.

My nights kept vigil on the breasts of statues

and suddenly a crazy man screamed and the moon

cuckoo rose; I’m so sad like the young sick girl

who was stopped from going to the garden and

of course she was coming from afar like all danger

while the woman’s laughter trickled like a Byzantine

hymn;

children’s stories written on the wind!

Oh forgetfulness.

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Dangle

Your smile

sharpened by sunlight

dangles from your lips

like a cigarette

before you turn

against the wind

and light it with

a single match stroke

as absence

of void conjures

a tangled mesh always

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Νικηφόρος Βρεττάκος – Οἱ μικροὶ γαλαξίες

Γιώργος Κοζίας, Eμβατήριο με σφιγμένα δόντια