by Katerina Angelaki Rooke
New American Translations
Series
The
recipient of the 1985 Greek National Poetry Award for the Greek
version of Beings and Things on Their Own, Katerina
Anghelaki-Rooke is the author of seven previous books of poetry
in Greek.
Twilight
Darkness
slowly eats the light, like a worm the fruit: from
within.
First the presaging shadows fall, then the hen seeks out
yesterday's
branch to roost. In her tiny brain she thinks her life
will
go on forever. A rustling accompanies the visible world as
it
leaves through the door of twilight and, invisible now, will
soon
go back in through the same door which we will then call
night.
On completion of the cycle, on the hidden side of the
moon,
on the other side of "I know," perhaps the scarecrow
which
petrifies me now will turn into a butterfly, and ugly
sticks
into the limbs of Adonis. And will Death, with his hunt-
ing
cap and gun, start missing his target among the flowers?
I
am politically minded. I mean, I think about death daily and
compare
it with a vastly better system: life.
Copyright © 1986 by BOA Editions
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Publishing Date: January 1990
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