translated by  Tzoutzi Mantzourani

Just because Time is a homeland 
In which I always return
Because Autumn becomes another season
Every time I want to
Because leaves don’t fall off the trees anymore
My footsteps belong more to the road
Than to me
And to the darkness that tames any way it can
The mortal animal
Inside me.

      [first appeared in Diastixo, 2018]