Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Clay: 15

Yannis Ritsos

I forgot to mention
the moon—
it was white
over the cobblestones
beside the small hammer
beside the crushed
almond shells.
You
crushed the almonds
with your teeth.


Athens—January 17, 1978


from Clay (1980) [Collected Poems: IDelta ---pg 86-87]

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