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Y emnis Ritsos: A Selection from the Forties 71 In the spring sprout lots of grass big red brawny flowers. The earth is red and fluffy — it's good for pitchers and pots. People look out the windows. What's happening? Someone's digging a flowerpot with a bone — a white, pure bone — it glows in the sun. The children sit at the threshold. They don't read. They think. Don't open the door. Let the summer be knocking. The moon is the helmet of the German soldier. Bar yourself well — put thick paper on the windowpanes. Only the dead are free to circulate in the streets — listen to their steps in their shabby worn-out shoes wandering in the rain without finding sleep or a grave these days, without finding a bit of land of their own a bit of bread a tiny memory. Big searchlights punch the walls, search the grooves of the clouds firearms snort behind the stone wall of the brick factory the dogs dig the earth dug up by mortars and graves. Athens, July-August 1942
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