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Ritsos, Yiannis – Selected Poems - Heat
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029411
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
From Selected Poems, tr. N. Stangos (1974)
Heat
The rocks, the flaming noon, the big waves _
the sea indifferent, dangerous, strong. On the upper street,
the muleteers shout, their carts full of water-melons.
Then, a knife, the soft slit, the wind,
the red flesh and the black seeds.