I like the parallel development, Andrew, & the poem's own quiet
collapse....
Not sure of the final stanza: something more of the how? (in just a
very few words of course, like the rest)...
Doug
On 6-Nov-07, at 3:14 PM, andrew burke wrote:
> 'How quietly time collapses in a poem.'
> Yannis Ritsos
>
>
> the land lies silent
> under foot under hoof
> under wheel
>
> this land scarred
> by English terms
> of management
>
> barbed-wire fences
> roads
> open-cut mines
>
> its people lost
> in a culture so
> foreign
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
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>
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