Fanfare and silence

Mentioned a few weeks ago that I'd managed to find a Tomas Tranströmer 'New Collected Poems' (2011 Edition), as translated from the Swedish, by Robin Fulton ...

... still thoroughly enjoying the contents - and here's another poem from within:


Silence

Walk past, they are buried ...
A cloud glides across the sun's disk.

Starvation is a tall building
that moves by night

in the bedroom a lift-shaft opens
it's a dark rod pointing to the inner domains.

Flowers in the ditch. Fanfare and silence.
Walk past, they are buried ...

The table-silver survives in big shoals
deep down where the Atlantic is black.

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Tomas Tranströmer (1931 - 2015)

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