Poem by Manolis Anagnostakis
EARLY BEFORE DAYBREAK
It was still early before daybreak when
I couldn’t accept defeat. I knew the many
hidden valuables I had to rescue, the many
pales of water to keep ready among the flames
you talked, you showed strange wounds in the streets
the panic choked your hearts like the flag you flew
on balconies, you loaded the merchandise hastily
your prognosis was correct: the city would fall
there, by the corner I meticulously collected
I carefully shut down my last outpost
I hanged the arms on the walls, I decorated
the windows with the broken school desks
I knit my net with hair clippings and
I waited standing alone like the first time
Libros Libertad 