
7th of November/evening
We spent Sunday peacefully. The boys played soccer.
I drew an almond twig on a wooden cigarette case.
Uncle Drosos must like it, I thought.
Perhaps he’d like a bird with an open beak.
I like to think of what Uncle Drosos might like.
I’m joyous and I have a sense of it and
that doesn’t stop me from being joyous.
The good moon lights my space and I can write.
I have made a friend of the telegraph pole.
I hear bells from a flock of sheep
That graze in the field. The sheep are
my younger brothers. I imagine a new fairy tale
with bitter oleanders, sheep, and a wild girl
with her goldilocks moistened by the moon.
Why am I still talking? Am I afraid?
I have to go for the mess. Good night moon.
Good night bells. Panoussis is peaceful.