From "Now 1/3"
Selected Poetry of Demosthenes Agrafiotis
Translated by Angelos Sakkis and John Sakkis

6.13

“old chef
for all kinds of home crises”

time to destination 0:20

“I’m crazy for artificial
                     jewelry
the loose change of illusion”

local time      altitude
speed             Zürich

“the distant cousins”
I have nothing to write

Terminal

 

Atlantic Ocean, Copenhagen, Moscow,
Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris,
Stuttgart, Milan, Barcelona, Luzern,
Berne, Bonn, Karlsruhe, La Chaux-de-Fonds,
Altdorf, Alpes, Rome,
Athens, Cairo, Teheran

language bloated on flat screen

“…they are lost useless life”
the greatest, the median amounts

 

 

 

 

 

the shadow of a tree
the geometry with red bricks
the strength of Chinese paper

Breuguel friend, guide
blind under a barrage of images
healing of wounds?
during some awkward days

the animated drawings are a verisimilitude
a devaluation, guileless gesture

the lies (solitary people)
worse than those of new-money
he admitted that cynicism never
                      left him

vol, vol, vol

Genova, Rapallo, Firenze