Greek Avant Garde Poetry



     

Costas Michos






Quanta and Weightless Liquids in 4 pieces


LARGO:
Charon wished to build a castle.
He places the young for floors, the old for foundations,
And the little children for the castle's iron. 
                                                           (Greek folk song for Charon-Death)

ANDANTE:
Sepia and caerulium  Eleni
Caerulium .
With a blue scarf in your hair you were mourning the sea
You

MOLTO  VIVACE
    Lai
    Lie.
    Line.
   Life .

My eyes are not iron heliotropes. 

JUBILATE:
« Oh, nothing . nothing. I was talking to Homer.
With Homer the poet?
Yes with Homer the poet, and with another Homer
From  Moschopolis" 
                                        



*JUBILATE is taken from Nikos Engonopoulos "The Clavicembalos of Silence" and from his poem "Perhaps".