As promised (for Tassos) I
As promised
(for Tassos)
I was given the Hellenic tongue
my house a humble one on the sandy shores of Homer.
My only care my tongue on the sandy shores of Homer.
The sea-bream and perch
windbeaten verbs
green currents with the cerulean
all that I saw blazing in my entrails
sponges, medusae
with the first words of the Sirens
pink shells with their first dark tremors.
Odysséas Elytis, in Áxion Estí.
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Publicado em 4 de Novembro de 2004