Sunday Morning
Women, one after another appear on the balconies of apartments or back gardens of the houses
and hang in wires their sheets,
these white flags, signify the capitulation of the night.
Ndrek Gjini
SourceLicence:Public domain
Women, one after another appear on the balconies of apartments or back gardens of the houses
and hang in wires their sheets,
these white flags, signify the capitulation of the night.
On a quiet Sunday morning, the speaker watches women step onto balconies and into back gardens, one after another, to hang their washed sheets on wires. The scene is ordinary, but the speaker sees it with fresh eyes: those white sheets become flags.
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