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World Poetry Portfolio #29: Anastassis Vistonitis | [wpcol_1quarter id="" class="" style=""] Anastassis Vistonitis Anastassis Vistonitis was born in Komotini, Northern Greece, in 1952. He studied Political Sciences and Economics in Athens. [/wpcol_1quarter] [wpcol_1quarter id="" class="" style=""] From 1983 to 1988 he lived in the U.S.A. Translated from the Greek by David Connolly The first in the wood The wood is a green flag that unveils night’s fires along the shaded paths, as the song leaps from the inferno of their eyes.

Freedom – a volcano spouting unrestrained cries and gunshots. The nightingales’ terror fills the night with sounds from the chestnuts. Falls silent in the woodlands. In the town the torturers clutch hold of the bolted-up mice. My knife the harp of death. I pin the light on the branches at midday. From out of their mouths fly hungry hawks. The unsaddled horses bolt off to the peaks, from out of the sky fall coins and bloated kings.

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