Yannis Ritsos – Poems, Volume V

Photographs

Three men and two women, taking pictures

down at the quay with the sea as background

and the clouds, and a faraway, triangular island.

The sailboats pulled out onto the land, looking discoloured

from the winds and the rain. Behind the glass

of the summer restaurant, the motionless owner

wears a black unironed suit. Was he taking

pictures of them too, or x-rays?

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