Sophie Dionysopoulou
Winter 2025 | Poetry
THE VISITOR
The wind’s color is emerald
The wind is alive, dead is the wind
The beauty of the birds excites him
The cypresses stab and stab him
He is a body, he is an apparition
I’ m breathing
SWALLOWING
HIS ASHES
LIKE LITTLE PRINCE
You are my poem – says the poet
Paint it for me – says his wife
How do you paint a poem? – says the poet
As you paint a sheep – says his wife
Using green ink, the poet
Takes the alphabets of languages
DEAD
ALIVE
IMAGINARY
ALL OF THEM
And scratches to the woman’s body
Their first and their ultimate letter
Sophie Dionysopoulou was born in Cairo. She studied Literature at the Sorbonne University and Lyric song. She wrote The Tinies, Narcissus Antinarcissus, Locker 1821, Your Name is Hurrem, Souls into his desert (poetry), Medea, red emptiness, Iphigenia of Euripide’s road, Water Cortege, Night Song (poetic theatre), The daughter of the innkeeper (novel) and Blessed by the deads (short stories). She is also a translator from French, Turkish and English and works at the theatre as a director. She resides in Athens.