What are you going to do

We present this work in honor of the poet’s 75th birthday.

Constance Dima
Greek
b. 1948

 

What are you going to do in a dusty landscape
they asked seeing me leave hastily
with a longing for escape
I would like – I replied –
to lose myself inside the Parthenon
to become his image
to defy death

as he has

Translation by Sotiris Biziouras

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