2nd Sat Strollers

By AndrewDBurns

We walk in the sun

Here's my favourite Tomas Tranströmer poem, as taken from within 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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