Caper
[...]people
alone in the picture frames
as the girl
destroyed the room
there weren’t
those you’d met in the squares
as they
once travelled afar
it was
another course
she
announced to me her death
with no
preamble
only the last
words
the first
ones were scared
it was a
bright, luminous morning
don’t
forget it
tide
waves
her body
swathed in seaweed
and the
sound of the city
reached
down here
even if we
had no news from there
the woman
at the coffee shop said
they have forsaken
us
no ship
no bus
no
hospitals
just people
I was in
the shade
of the tree
a tamarix
one metre
from the sea
salty caper
grew near there
alone
on the rock
the dog
stared at
the sea
the bird
hovered threatening
above us
in the
distance
women gave
birth alone
and then
runs on the sand
the lizards
sun themselves
the sea
daffodils have just blossomed in the sand
seaweed the
sea disgorges tonight
all is
serene
the sky is
full of bright stars
a red moon
from afar
from the
archipelago?
It comes
alone I
lose myself in its body
the
demonstrators’ cries are heard this far
its body red
on the sand
a song
reaches me from the street
unemployed
mothers
children
alone in the streets
the
children leave
the closed
schools
as the sun
sinks in the sea for the night
mauve violet
green
love
travels to Antarctica
the waves
and the seabirds have returned
now that
the people have left to bring what?
in these
leaden years
the silver
sea you carry with you
in towns
and in Athenian neighbourhoods
warm and
soft it hugs you
and then I
saw him
sleeping in
an arcade off Eolou Street, Saturday night
cardboard
boxes
it was he,
you recognised him
fear came
to grip you
his lips
reminded you of the kiss
discernible
amidst the cardboard
down the
street young people on a night out in town
he turned
inside the boxes
pulling the
blanket closer to get warm
this
Saturday night
and the
lips were
we used to
laugh, remember?
and talk of
distant travels
the hotel
was not far from here
she felt
the cold on her back
and in her
heart tonight
Syngros
Hospital, silent doors
closed
doors
the end
lurks and awaits[...]
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