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Tasos Livaditis – Poems, Volume II

Long Listed for the 2023 Griffin Poetry Awards

Woman in Blue

One woman stopped at the entrance of the cafe.

She wasn’t waiting for anyone. No one waited for her.

Why did she stop there? Who was she? Perhaps

an old forgotten singer or a woman of a certain age

and of a different era who had lost her way.

No one ever found out.

And as it started to get dark, nothing remained

in the world but sorrow, the night, loneliness and

this need to somehow make it in our dark life.

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Savages and Beasts, a novel

(Excerpt)

They had almost done the round and Anton realized the place was a huge facility that could house up to 700 hundred kids although at this time there were about 450 as Dylan mentioned: about 200 boys and almost 250 girls from as young as three years old and as old as sixteen. Anton’s work would require him to clean all clothes and beddings of all these kids after the maids had collected them from each dorm; soon as they would get cleaned and placed in bins Anton would then return them to the proper places, situated at the sleeping quarters of the savages and of the teaching and administrative personnel. From there the four maids were responsible to allot them appropriately.

Dylan gave all the instructions he could remember up front confirming that everything else would be learned day after day in practice. With these final words they both went down to the main floor and separated at the front desk, Dylan to his room in the basement and Anton who stood in front of Sister Gladys’ desk.

It was still a beautiful sunny day outside the cold mausoleum as Anton observed the sun rays entering from the top of the door skylight flooding the hallway with optimism and benevolence. Sister Gladys finished the entry she was writing on a thick like a Journal book and upon closing it she said to Anton.

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