Song of the Sirens (sp016)
Theocháris Kátos, Efthalía Nóstou (sp016)
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The poems here are not meant to be read.
We have sealed them inside wood, sand, and a clay ear.
Whoever seeks to find them must dig.
Our words are not printed; they are buried—so that they may live.
The “Song of the Sirens” belongs to no art alone.
It is sculpture, poem, and relic at once—
a testimony of experience, poised between matter and remembrance.
As sculpture, it bears weight, erosion, sand, and gold—
a body that remembers the slow passage of time.
As poem, it breathes without voice;
a speech entombed, a silence that warms beneath the earth.
As object, it does not display—it contains;
like a relic, or a charm, it seeks not to be explained,
but to be preserved.
Thus the work becomes
a poetic vessel of metaphysical memory—
memories that, instead of proclaiming,
listen to silence.