Yorgos Brounias was born in Athens in 1946 and studied archaeology and history at Athens University. He worked for the Delphi Ephorate of Antiquities, planning an excavation in Evrytania, and at Ekdotiki Athinon as a translator. From 1974 to 1979 he worked for the BBC’s Greek Service in London, and from 1979 to 1990 was at Ta Nea newspaper. Since 1990 he has worked at Kathimerini newspaper.

Yorgos Brounias, Company, To Rodakio 2005, p. 13-14

WEATHER

In this land, the light
on turning the corner
bathes in laughter
the eyes’ green whiteness
and then like an old woman goes and sits
on a stool.
The light, in this land
on turning the corner
mercilessly scourges the defenceless eyes
and then like an olive goes and sits
on a stool.
But the wind blows fair
here and in Katmandu
like the clouds
the leaves
the clouds in the leaves
with a squeaking
a coach going to the seashore
the sun turns the corner
and gently rains on the ancestral steppes