Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Tomas Transtromer


A PAGE OF THE NIGHT BOOK
.
I stepped ashore one May night
in the cool moonshine
where grass and flowers were grey
but the scent green.
.
I glided up the slope
in the colour-blind night
while white stones
signalled to the moon.
.
a period of time
a few minutes long
fifty-eight years wide.
.
And behind me
beyond the lead-shimmering waters
was the other shore
and those who ruled.
.
People with a future
instead of a face.
.
Sweden

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