Sunday drivers

I would sooner be ex-

posed with a friend,

than complacent with

the strongest horde.

Heraclitus says of them, The Eyes and ears are bad witnesses for men with barbarian souls. 


I doubt that one could witness them without some diurnal practice with a nearer one.     


           

                  The lark's breast will open to 

                    the light

                  And a song will hang suspended

                    in mid-air

                  Sowing the four winds

                  With golden grains of fire

                  Liberating earth's beauty.

Heraclitus
Fragment
6th Century BC

Nikos Gatsos
  Amorgos

Odysseus Elytis
  Adolescence of day

Edmund Keeley
Philip Sherrard
  translators
  and editors
Voices of Modern
  Greece
  Selected Poems
Princeton University Press, 1981©