translated by Konstantine Matsoukas

A mystery-
On his knees
His eyes a flashlight
Pointed at me
The unmoving sculpture
An intervention in the world's passing
A simulacrum as ancient as it gets
A jewel at the store window of a futurolithic period
He
Digs away at my body
The residency of centuries
A robber of dirt
A monger
I am the country
Atop my city
Denizens
Holding up the pillars
There is no other identity here
Ruins and iambs
Are what
Befits my body

  Bare Museum, Melani Publications, Athens, 2013