Long-listed for the 2023 Griffin Poetry Awards
MANY of us couldn’t ever recognize him, some things
remained forever unknown, however as we slowly started
forgetting we brought him near us; years went by; it was
beautiful and him, they said, owner of old treasures since
he oen stayed in foreign houses into which others entered
only from the street, “then, why you ask me?” I said to him;
thus people retained good memory of the family, especially
during the evenings; in fact they found the bed-sheet
the old women used to wrap him, since his difficulty was
which direction to take and since darkness was slowly
falling I thought I had to save him so I went to the garden
where I sat quietly.
Manolis Aligizakis 