Poem by Odysseus Elytis

THE MONOGRAM

I

Fate will turn elsewhere the lines

of the palm, like a key keeper

time momentarily will consent.

How else, since men love each other.

The sky will re-enact in our viscera

and innocence will strike the world

with the sharpness of the black of death.

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