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Ritsos, Yiannis – Selected Poems - In Foreign Parts
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029407
Type of Spiritual Experience
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From Selected Poems, tr. N. Stangos (1974)
In Foreign Parts
He looks all around. He doesn't know where he is. The sunset
noble, distant. He recognizes the garden rails,
the door knob, the windows, the cypress
But he? A calm lake is mirrored
high up, in a cloud - a pink lake
with gold edges. Up there
he has left his shoes, his clothes. Now,
naked like this, how can he stand in the middle of the road,
naked like this, how can he enter the foreign house?