International Poetry Day on the Athens Metro A large crowd gathered to listen to poetry on the Athens Metro; all kinds of politicians and artists even poets too – among them a woman who without the copper straps of Silence tumbled on. At least we are compensated by the cello and the wing that makes it emit a passionate groan, at the same time that the eavesdropping passengers went up and down setting their watches swallows of the equinox. The moment that the light balances with the darkness. This reveals too the great attention with which the best listener (vigilant eye) absorbed it all; name: capital. (March 2000) (Translated from the Greek by David Connolly) (From “Myth and History”, Selected Poems, Nostos Books, University of Minnesota, 2010) At his daughter’s wedding ...