The Crane Dance

From: Poetry | Date: April 1, 2008| Author: Ritsos, Yannis | Copyright information

The clew paying out through his fingers, a deftness

that would bring him back to her, its softness the softness

of skin, as if drawn from herself directly, the faint

labial smell, guiding him up and out, as some dampness

on the air might lead a stone-blind man to the light.

Asterios dead for sure, his crumpled horn, his muzzle

thick with blood, so at Delos they stopped,

Theseus and the young Athenians, and stepped

up to the "altar of hor...

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