Paternal protection
“The father bent and lifted the child onto his shoulders.
The child laughed and stretched out his hands like wings.
And so they rose a little above the world.”
Yannis Ritsos, Η Σονάτα του Σεληνόφωτος (The Moonlight Sonata), 1956.
English translation by Peter Green & Edmund Keeley, in Selected Poems:
Yannis Ritsos, Princeton University Press, 1974.
