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Article: Of Trinakria. (Poetry).(Poem)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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OF TRINAKRIA
With a little more touch and much seeing the map gets complete.
And suddenly ding! The bell's sound dives straight down, thirsty
you might say for reefs familiar and long lost; where the curves
and slipperiness of some Aphrodite may still shine white, so to
raise and disperse into the air eternal realities, if possible in
some form of the Septuagint translation; as happened so far with
the gold of copper which the bells of the Orthodox kept for us,
if not also with the acidity of the flavor of midday's fruit or
with the exhalation of the stilled sea in those late afternoons
that start to smell of watermelon, somewhere west of ...
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