Nikos Gkatsos poetry
"Dark Mother"
I brought you up with soil and water
a young swallow to be and yet a wild creature,
to have you as my alphabet-book in the times
and as my unfading nightlight in memory.
But you, looking for the source of dreams
near the Virgin Mary,
developed wings, refused the land
our dark, our first mother
translation: Marios Dikaiakos
a young swallow to be and yet a wild creature,
to have you as my alphabet-book in the times
and as my unfading nightlight in memory.
But you, looking for the source of dreams
near the Virgin Mary,
developed wings, refused the land
our dark, our first mother
translation: Marios Dikaiakos
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