Posing

                                                    Statues collection from the wreck of Antikytheron.
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Dionyssis Karatzas poetry

HELEN
You render your body a moon
and emerge from out of August,
dancing the sacred rhythm
you set off in the night
Helen, Helen, Helen
the bitterest Greek name,
a closed hope entire
and a sea firm like rock.
                        
translated by David Connolly