translated by Yannis Goumas

Pray, permit me to fall in love, I, Anna of Aragon,
with the last descendant of the Comnenos family, and the two of us
on a train go on an endless journey to Kyparissia
among olive trees and pine trees, provincial newspapers and rocks
and in the evening, I promise you, I will surrender to your merce-
naries
and suffer at the stake in the main square of Kalamata
wearing only a mourning veil and this, my wedding ring.

  99 poems, Odos Panos Publications, Athens, 1999