…but I repeat
in one piece
from top to bottom
because of the fall
only his humble clothes
turned golden like the Sun
his face
they said pale, like the Moon
but lit like the Moon
these two stars
usually co-exist
in icons of Byzantine Art
and if he went to hide in Mytilene afterward
he was already immortal:
it was meant to live forever
I m m o r t a l
Perhaps along with his clumsy co-citizen
Giorgio de Chirico
and with Benaroya
among many
others
some from Volos
who lived before
and during
and after
the pulling of the ladder
era
Manolis Aligizakis 