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Poems from Nio dagar utan namn (‘Nine days without names’, Söderströms, 1998). Introduction by Bror Rönnholm

Quickly, at a zebra crossing

moments

          not of wonder but of
 something closely related: the tree

          upturned by the gale
 with its roots to the heavens, the lit-up

          church spire against the night sky, a few
simple gravestones viewed at a

          suitable season, a quartet from the Marriage of Figaro
 or just standing at a roaring

          crossing and writing this, invisible
 to all in exhaust fumes and a faint blue

          light from a hidden sun, a few
times mistaken for a

          loved pupil  More...