Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer died today. Here is a poem from his Selected Poems, edited by Robert Hass.
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 drink.
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.
Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Robin Fulton
2 comments:
That feels like a fully-finished heaven to me. Nice remembrance.
Glad you liked it. When I opened my copy of the book, this was the first poem I saw. I looked at some others but figured I'd been given spirit guidance, so half-finished heaven it was.
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