846: photo by Petros Kotzabasis, 16 June 2015
Why are you punishing me? What is my crime?
Yannis Ritsos: November 6
Evening. The bell for the evening meal.
Shouts from the boys playing soccer.
Was it yesterday? -- I don’t remember; -- a stunning sunset
so violet, so gold, so rosy.
We stood there. We watched. We talked
alone, alone, tossing our voices into the wind
so as to tie things together, to unbind our hearts.
Shouts from the boys playing soccer.
Was it yesterday? -- I don’t remember; -- a stunning sunset
so violet, so gold, so rosy.
We stood there. We watched. We talked
alone, alone, tossing our voices into the wind
so as to tie things together, to unbind our hearts.
A letter arrived in the yard:
Panousis’s son was killed.
Our talk nestled against the walls.
The sunset suddenly nothing.
Panousis’s son was killed.
Our talk nestled against the walls.
The sunset suddenly nothing.
The night had no hours. The knot loosened.
Panousis’s aluminum plate grew cold on the table.
We lay down. We covered ourselves. We loved one another
around that untouched plate that no longer steamed.
Panousis’s aluminum plate grew cold on the table.
We lay down. We covered ourselves. We loved one another
around that untouched plate that no longer steamed.
Around midnight the black cat came in through the window
and ate some of Panousis’s food.
Then the moon came in
and hung motionless over the plate.
Panousis’s arm on the blanket
was a severed plane tree.
and ate some of Panousis’s food.
Then the moon came in
and hung motionless over the plate.
Panousis’s arm on the blanket
was a severed plane tree.
Well then -- must we really be so sad
in order to love one another?
in order to love one another?
Yannis Ritsos (1909-1990): November 6, from Diaries of Exile (1948-1950), translated by Karen Emmerich and Edmund Leroy Keeley, 2014
7314: photo by Petros Kotzabasis, 2 January 2015
8904: photo by Petros Kotzabasis, 11 November 2014
9036: photo by Petros Kotzabasis, 6 September 2014
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7 comments:
Good selection, Tom.
Oxi
and a word here.
Tom,
Oxi dokey from here too, as well as...
...the Court of Gonzaga painted by Mantegna, and EP's ms of Canto XLV
Mategna's Euromagnate holding the paper delicately and taking in the whispers with heavy lids.
Whatever happens now there's much honour in the choice.
must we really be so sad/ in order to love one another?
I think sadness joins people more than hapiness
Powerful. Why are you punishing me? Must we be sad/punished to love each other?
Q. Must we be sad/punished to love each other?
A. Ixnay!
(A timorous hopeful squeak heard all round the detention compound?)
Beautiful photos Tom, B&W + COLOR
What is my crime?
With usura hath no man a house of good stone
each block cut smooth and well fitting
Steve
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