Monastery of the Great Cave
Zachlorou, Kalavryta
Impact on the gaze
of that great gorge
whose river glistens,
threading from snowfields
on the distant range
in silver veins.
Impact on the rocks
far down of cassocked bodies
skulls and spines, the brethren
young and very old: a Totentanz
for Kommandants, a little prelude
to Kalavryta, the massacre.
Knowing this alters imperceptibly
what is seen, the act of seeing,
rendering each detail with more clarity,
precisely, so that the river entering
its chasm between high red walls,
the buildings of the monastery,
the gleaming snows, the cypress trees
echo their image endlessly on the retina,
cling to the eye, suspending for an eternity
the time to die.
To commemorate 25 March, the Greek Day of
Liberation...
from Black Angel of Liberty
© Copyright: Jena Woodhouse, 2011
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