Thanássis Hatzópoulos
From: Share in the Sun (1996)
Sphinx
And to render the truth
The enigmatic smiles that blossom
With charms and shed leaves of falsehood
Is the one who will find the path
To have access to the sea
To her riddle he answers
With a suitable song
Whose music charms her like glass
A shroud of foam its power shatters
And enwraps her, its words
Break the spell and the gaze
At her feet, at her mysteries
And at her bowels that now blossom
With sea-anemones, that the shipwreck may sprout
Set sail as a fruitful garden
Man bends his knee
For from there is born and falls silent
The work of his life and of his fate
The honeyed torment
Translated by David Connolly
Page(s) 192-193
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