20 poems by tomas transtromer biography
Tomas transtromer the outpost...
Tomas Tranströmer
Once there was a shock
that left behind a long, shimmering comet tail.
It keeps us inside. It makes the TV pictures snowy.
It settles in cold drops on the telephone wires.
20 poems by tomas transtromer biography
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It’s spring in 1827, Beethoven
hoists his death-mask and sails off.
The grindstones are turning in Europe’s windmills.
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They switch off the light and its white shade
glimmers for a moment before dissolving
like a tablet in a glass of darkness.
Then up.
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20 poems by tomas transtromer biography summary
Men in overalls the same color as earth rise from a ditch.
It's a transitional place, in stalemate, neither country nor city.
Construction cranes on the horizon want to take the big leap,
but the clocks are against it.
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The white butterfly in the park is being read by many.
I love that cabbage-moth as if it were a fluttering corner of truth itself!
At dawn the running crowds set our quiet planet in motion.
Then the park fills with people.
To each one, eight faces polished like jade, for all
situation