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@janeeyrie.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 3:49 PM

For several weeks, I have been haunted by this poem by #Cavafy. The translator is Avi Sharon. I appreciate how Cavafy, never didactic, almost always trusts the readers to puzzle through the context and ambiguities themselves.
#poetry

Great Procession of Clergy and Laymen.

A great procession of clergy and laymen with all of the guilds clearly represented makes its way through the streets, the squares, and under the gates of the renowned city of Antioch.
At the head of this imposing parade stands a beautiful young boy, dressed in white, bearing in his upraised hands the Cross, the holy Cross, our strength and hope.
The pagans, so arrogant before,
seem reserved and timid now; they distance themselves hastily from the procession. Let them remain far away from us always (those who fail to renounce their
error).
Onward proceeds the holy Cross; and in every neighbourhood where Christians live in piety
it brings great consolation and great joy: the pious stand at the doors of their homes and full of exultation they bow in reverence to the strength and salvation of the world, the Cross.
This is an annual Christian festival.
But today it is celebrated more openly, as you see.
For the state has been delivered at last.
The sacrilegious, the abominable Julian no longer reigns.
Let us pray for Jovian, most pious of men.

@fustbariclation.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 10:26 AM

'The Impermanence of Memory'

#Poem #Poetry #μvers #micropoetry
#Dali #Cavafy #Arnold #Barbarians #Dover #Beach

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