a window into the earth
I know I've blipped this poem a few times before - but I always love revisiting this marvelous volume ...
... so here's Tomas Tranströmer, as taken from the pictured 2011 Collection, translated from the Swedish by Robin Fulton:
The Half-Finished Heaven
Despondency breaks off its course.
Anguish breaks off its course.
The vulture breaks off its flight.
The eager light streams out,
even the ghosts take a draught.
And our paintings see daylight,
our red beasts of the ice-age studios.
Everything begins to look around.
We walk in the sun in hundreds.
Each man is a half-open door
leading to a room for everyone.
The endless ground under us.
The water is shining among the trees.
The lake is a window into the earth.
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Tomas Tranströmer (1931 - 2015)
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