by Constantine P. Cavafy
I'd like to speak of this memory…
but it's so faded now…as though nothing is left-
because it was so long ago, in my early adolescent years.
A skin as though of jasmines…
that August evening- was it August?-
I can still just recall the eyes: blue, I think they were…
Ah yes, blue: a sapphire blue.
Last updated January 14, 2019