MILTOS SACHTOURIS'S TIME
(1919-2OO5)
Birthday July 19

The landscape feels lifeless
when you are not here
in Athens at the spas
after day dreaming
drinking ouzo
from an an ancient jug
of amphora
curved in the neck
of a lover
as wild birds from the deck
call out  "Miltos, Miltos
Sachtouris,"
from a woman's caress
red lips open
on daughters lament
in a metamorphosis of words
from an apocalypse
on the Isle of Patmos' waters.