Yannis Stavrou, Moon Shine, oil on canvas
About the Greek poet, Miltos Sachtouris...
...The rejection of a decorative use of poetic language, and the greatest possible condensing as a permanent method for creating style are two elements that accompany Miltos Sachtouris in most of his collections. Things and their uses are described with relative fidelity, poetic action is enhanced thanks to a quick succession of images-episodes, whilst the descriptive part of the narration (space layout, details about the elements that demarcate it) is minimised to the lowest possible degree...
From Introduction to Miltos Sachtouris poetics, by Yiannis Dallas
Miltos Sachtouris
The Poet
When they find me on the cross of my death
the sky around will have reddened far beyond
there’ll be a suspicion of sea
and, from above, in a now terrifying darkness
a white bird will recite my songs.
The Saint
He stared deep
deep
into the well
its depth
had no end
in this life
the flesh peeled off
and fell bit by bit
soon nothing would remain
but his skeleton
I’ve decided - he said -
I’ve finally decided
I’ll live among the drowned
and among the lepers
the sky around will have reddened far beyond
there’ll be a suspicion of sea
and, from above, in a now terrifying darkness
a white bird will recite my songs.
The Saint
He stared deep
deep
into the well
its depth
had no end
in this life
the flesh peeled off
and fell bit by bit
soon nothing would remain
but his skeleton
I’ve decided - he said -
I’ve finally decided
I’ll live among the drowned
and among the lepers
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