Persistence

Their pillboxes
of hollow air and limestone
still survive.

Bleaching under the trees
like those bones shepherds find
but never speak of.

Rain washes them
time and again
but the whiteness persists.

_{Μιχάλης Γκανάς, από τον Ακάθιστο Δείπνο (1978)
From Standing Feast, 1978}