Long Listed for the 2023 Griffin Poetry Awards
https://griffinpoetryprize.com/press/2023-longlist-announcement/
Story
Centuries after the deluge, and I still stood in the hallway
with the wet umbrella.
There were others waiting too, and the notes in our hands
started to dissolve.
Tthe prosecutor delayed and the years passed, “if they
at least gave me a piece of chalk” someone complained.
The woman wore an old dirty robe, “It hasn’t stopped yet.”
she said and she showed the wheel at the far end.
A well-known story, as they say.
Manolis Aligizakis 