Yannis Ritsos – Poems, Volume V

Prejudiced

With that prejudice the disobedient toward death,

the crafty, the hypocrite, the unconvinced,

he underlines insignificant or inexistent things:

the fluff of the dead bird on the thorns,

the window that opens to a dead-end wall,

the scratches of the wall, the sketch of a vessel

the handsome archer among the large lilies

that invisible depth which the archer aims at

while two dead men, with turned backs, slowly

and carefully raise in front of the window

the white, square, stretched bed sheet.

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