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Ritsos, Yiannis – Selected Poems - Evening
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029409
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
From Selected Poems, tr. N. Stangos (1974)
Evening
She watered the flowers. She listened to the water dripping from
the balcony.
The planks get soaked and rot. Tomorrow,
when the balcony collapses, she will remain up in the air,
calm, beautiful, holding in her arms
the two big pots of her geraniums and her smile.