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Yannis Ritsos poetry
MIDNIGHT 

Dressed in black and the ethereal — her footsteps went unheard.
She walked through the portico. No lights on. As she climbed
the stone steps, they shouted, "Halt!" Her face
a white mist in the darkness. Beneath her apron,
she was hiding a violin. "Who's there!" She didn't speak.
She stopped dead; hands raised, with that violin
clutched between her knees. She was smiling.

from Stones [Collected Poems:I ]
(translated by Scott King)  http://yannisritsos.blogspot.gr/




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