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Ritsos, Yiannis – Selected Poems - Barbershop
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029412
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
From Selected Poems, tr. N. Stangos (1974)
Barbershop
They fixed up a small room among the ruins
with bricks and cardboard in the windows; they also put up a sign;
it read 'Barbershop'. Late, on Saturdays, around dusk,
in the dim light from the half open door, facing the sea,
the mirror pale blue - the young fishermen
and the boatmen come to shave. Then,
when it is quite dark, they go out the other door,
quiet, shadowy, with long reverent beards