Yannis Ritsos – Poems, Volume IV

Not Executed
Clouds on the mountain. Whose fault is it? He, tired, looks
straight ahead, returns, walks, stoops.
The stones are on the ground, the birds up in the air.
A water pitcher stands at the windowsill. Thorns in the fields.
Hands in the pockets. Pretenses, pretenses. The poem delays.
Emptiness. Speech is defined by what it has silenced.

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