translation by Coleman Barks
This other night inside grows warm, kindling.
Let the landscape be covered with thorny crust.
We have a soft garden in here.
The continents blasted,
cities and little towns, everything
become a scorched, blackened ball.
The News We Hear is full of grief for that future,
but the real News inside here
is there's No News at all.
~
Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me
in the firmness under you.
How is it with this love,
I see your world and not you?
~
Listen to the presences inside poems,
Let them take you where they will.
Follow those private hints,
and never leave the premises.
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| photo: Stockholm Museum |
