Two Poems by Lefteris Siomos

Open Town

Pale face in April, 

honey Kitrinaia lives the town

in Jaundice, 

with a yellow rose on in its lips

It’s too early to get the          

gold out although           

running like a southern       

mad man

Distinguishing the virgins       

of Africa, 

the sky rains       

yellow tears the earth

the sick orange fruit  

Among the people

I look for the dust of you

and don’t see you          

only as my housewife

I paint yellow everything 

in my eyes you’re invisible       

to me like dust of sand

I found you and look you           

in the eyes between them          

I would like to come out    

those eyes that saw me

like a diamond.

I am seen by a sick orange cloud like autumn                

that’s blooming

My world seem asian pale to me espressed nature  with the envy ot the soul, the yellow of the season.

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Love in Your Hair 

 

I stuck my eye up there          

in the ribbon 

dancing through my hair

a butterfly in the wind 

 

And can’t I catch it 

she’s wipping me with her aura of recklessness

your country is a reason  

daylight in your hair 

 

Or the ribbon in the yeast.     

Ah, she tied me 

with the bow you’ve got.                                 

A heart held in ostage, boy!

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- Lefteris Siomos