THEY CAME dressed up as  “friends,” came countless times, my enemies, trampling the primeval soil. And the soil never blended with their heel. They brought The…

DENIAL On the secret seashore white like a pigeon we thirsted at noon; but the water was brackish. On the golden sand we wrote her…

13-12-43 Remember me telling you: when the boats whistle don’t be in the port. But the day that was leaving was ours and we didn’t…

Winter Grapes They took away her toys and her lover. Well then she bowed her head and almost died. But her thirteen destinies like her…

Without You Without you doves wouldn’t find water. Without you God wouldn’t switch on the light in his fountains. An apple tree sows its blossoms…

Walls Without consideration, without pity, without shame they have built great and high walls around me. And now I sit here and despair. I think…

The City You said: “I’ll go to another country, go to another shore, find another city better than this one. Whatever I try to do…

Ithaka As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians, Cyclops, angry Poseidon-don’t be…