Season 3 · Episode 1
C. P. Cavafy. Desires.
101 Exiles · Poetry from the Jungle from The Ceylon Press
January 17, 20251m 4s
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Show Notes
Like beautiful bodies of the dead, who had not grown old
and they shut them with tears, in a magnificent mausoleum,
with roses at the head and jasmine at the feet —
that is how desires look that have passed
without fulfillment; without one of them having achieved
a night of sensual delight, or a moonlit morn.
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