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Ritsos, Yiannis – Selected Poems - One Night
Identifier
029402
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
From Selected Poems, tr. N. Stangos (1974)
One Night
The mansion had been shut up for years,
gradually falling apart - rails, Iocks, balconies; until one night
the whole second floor was suddenly lit,
its eight windows wide open, the two balcony doors open with
no curtains.
The few passers-by stopped and looked up.
Silence. Not a soul. A square lit space. Except,
leaning against the wall, an antique mirror,
with a heavy moulding made of black carved wood, mirroring
the rotten, the converging floor boards to a fantastic depth.