John Tavener attends the Funeral of Athene Hariades


from the ABC set 2. Metamorphosis before Thirty

"Her inner and outer beauty was reflected in her love of acting, poetry, music and of the Orthodox Church"

Was the grief so hard that
a half-stranger was a safer
recipient from that
strange other place beyond
a buckled wheel,
a satchel, a copy of Hamlet
and girl's things on the road?

I guess at that - no details
were released and
your picture never made fame .
A song gifted the day
you failed your father
instead stretched shadow-
fingers over the composer's ears.

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