Twelve Narratives of the Gypsy

(Excerpt)

Oh, bird nests oh nightingales

all the unmatched and rough

a motionless rock always

conceals the dead slavery.

When the last born will

slowly come he’ll turn into

a more fruitful offspring

with an always deeper meaning

a new nobleman will appear

with his broadsword

that resembles

the most harmonious guitar

and of the unfortunate man

who day after day toils

the disinherited who ends

a slave or a torturer

and whether torturer or slave

the unsaid and the unbearable

he endures the tyrant’s

fear remains deep in his heart

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Phoebe Giannisi (Φοίβη Γιαννίση), Rites of Passage