SO FEW FLOWERS

 

                               For Hüseyin Ateşin

 

“So few flowers”, he said,

forgetting the storms that raged

so many days and nights,

and the lilacs struggling

against the crushing weight of corpses

to greet another spring.

 

                   Pavlos Andronikos

                               March 1998

 

 

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