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RED THREAD by YANNIS RITSOS

First Line: THE TEMPLE OF POSEIDON THAT AGAMEDES AND TROPHONIUS BUILT IN
Last Line: AND ALWAYS ONLY A SINGLE THREAD SEPARATES US FROM OUR GOD - %TO CUT IT BRINGS BLINDNESS AND DEATH

Poem Sources:

SENECA REVIEW, V20#2/90.
  (1990)
 
REPETITIONS, TESTIMONIES, PARENTHESES. EDMUND KEELEY (TR.)
  RITSOS, YANNIS
  (1991)
 



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