Πέμπτη 28 Φεβρουαρίου 2013

TA ΑΓΑΛΜΑΤΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΣΤΟ ΜΟΥΣΕΙΟ

Sunday

Two heavy horses and a slow carriage, that or something
else, 
in the street outside my window:




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that's the noise. 
Soon it'll be dark; I see a pediment of amputated statues still
looking at me. 
What do the statues weigh?

Ι prefer a drop of blood to a glass of ink


George Seferis. Book of Exercises: Sunday
Complete poems
(traslated by Edmung Keeley and Philip Sheppard. Anvil. London. 1995)