The Eye ... by Creeley



Moon
and clouds, will
we drift

higher
than that we
look at,

moon's and
mind's
eye.


- Robert Creeley (1926-2005)
from Selected Poems (1976)

Backwards ... by Creeley



Nowhere before you
any of this.


- Robert Creeley (1926-2005)

from Selected Poems 1976

Euripides the Athenian ... by Seferis



He grew old between the fires of Troy
and the quarries of Sicily.

He liked sea-shore caves and pictures of the sea.
He saw the veins of men
as a net the gods made to catch us in like wild beasts:
he tried to break through it.
He was a sour man, his friends were few;
when his time came he was torn to pieces by dogs.


- George Seferis (1900-1971)

Translated by Edmund Keely & Philip Sherrard