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10.09am on Fifth Avenue.
S A N T O R I N I -T H E N A K E D C H I L D N 40° 43’ 53.1’’ W 73° 59’ 49.1’’.
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B Y T H E G R E E K P O E T G E O R G E S E F E R I S *

Bend if you can to the dark sea forgetting
the flute’s sound on naked feet
that trod your sleep in the other, the sunken life.
Write if you can on your last shell
the day the place the name
and fling it into the sea so that it sinks.
We found ourselves naked on the pumice stone
watching the rising islands
watching the red islands sink
into their sleep, into our sleep.

PHOTO: JOHN DOYLE/UNSPLASH
*George Seferis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963

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