Day: June 15, 2026

Fury of the Wind

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excerpt

He stopped abruptly as a male voice from amongst a group of
men near the door hailed him. Looking decidedly relieved, he excused
himself to Sarah and hurried away.
She stood in the middle of the room, unaware of the people moving
around her. The day was not going at all as she expected. She
wished she hadn’t come. Perhaps Ben had been smart, after all, to
stay at home. Whatever he had done to alienate the people of Nimkus
had obviously cut deeply. But she could not understand why
they should take it out on her.
She became aware of people staring at her so she walked away,
and eventually made her way outside to the fair grounds. No one,
except a little oriental-looking man, spoke to her. Struggling to
manoeuvre a table through the door into the agricultural hall, he
flashed Sarah a huge smile. “How do, missy.”
Sarah vaguely remembered the sign on a shack at the end of the
main street, declaring the presence of Pong’s Laundry. She felt the
urge to run after the man whom she knew must be Pong, and offer
to help him with the table. After all, apart from Will, no one else
had shown any friendliness towards her this morning.
With nothing better to do she decided to go back to the livestock
area and watch Dave show his animals. Picking her way through
the people gathered on the fairgrounds, she noticed a group at the
grandstand near the ball diamond. She walked over to have a look.
Young men, some in their late teens and others a little older, had
already begun a game of baseball. They wore no uniforms, and the
few baseball caps amongst them did not display any team logo so
Sarah could not tell which districts they represented.
A man leaning on the end of a bleacher seat smiled and moved
aside to let her get a better look. Sarah, interpreting his move as
a friendly gesture, dared to speak to him. “Can you tell me what
teams are playing?”
“Colson and Ryerson districts,” he said, turning to look at her.
“You not from round here then?”
“Yes, I live in the Colson district, but I haven’t been there long.
I doubt if I’d know anyone on the team. Are they the ones at bat
now?”
“No, the ones in the field. They have a pretty fair team…

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Constantine Cavafy

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Mirror by the Entrance
The wealthy house had in its entryway
a huge, quite old mirror,
bought at least eighty years ago.
A very handsome young man, a tailor’s employee,
(on Sundays an amateur athlete)
stood there holding a parcel. He gave it
to a member of the household, who went inside
to get a receipt. The tailor’s employee
was left alone and waited.
He went close to the mirror and had a look
at himself, and he adjusted his tie. Five minutes later,
they brought him the receipt. He took it and left.
But the old mirror that had seen and seen,
during its long years of life,
thousands of things and faces,
the old mirror rejoiced now,
and felt proud that it had received
that gorgeous beauty for a few minutes.

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Tasos Livaditis – Selected Poems

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The events that followed his revolutionary ardour and all the changes that took place, most importantly the decay of human values and the spread of consumerism, didn’t stop him from overcoming his personal trials and becoming the expression of his era. Thus, he opened a passage toward the future light using his past experiences, the lost vision and his infinite nostalgia, and he reached his apex in his latest books where he enclosed all he had planned to reveal in verse:
And perhaps this is the unsaid: as if someone close to your cries,
one you’ll never see, nor will he ever meet you.
But at night, when you both come back together, you
Open the door to the old room.
I was so afraid that when they took something
From me, I felt grateful
They at least left me with their memory.
Livaditis’ poetry is alive, as is the memory of him. It is poetry open to the populace, addressed to those who walk toward new eras, to those who at least can grasp his warning:
Ah, life! A stranger’s hat we put on hastily
in the panic of the bombing.
~ Spiros Katsimis

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Redemption

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…thinking of going hunting tomorrow. Is there anything around here
we may find?”
“You are going hunting without a permit?” George asked.
“That is right; we’ll arrange it. Do you have the guns?” Demetre
insisted.
“Yes, you can have mine, and my son has his, which his mother
has kept hidden for a long time.”
Hermes was surprised.
“You know your mother; she wouldn’t let me touch her son’s
stuff.”
Despina, by now, had already set the table with her best linen.
She served the food in her best dishes. They all ate with a good appetite
and drank to Hermes’ success. After a few glasses of wine, his
father began to speak more freely, and they had a very pleasant
evening.

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