#fire graffiti

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Tomas Tranströmer, from “Fire Graffiti", The Deleted World: Poems (versions by Robin Robertson, bilingual ed.)

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“Fire Graffiti” by Tomas Tranströmer, born today in 1931

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Fire Graffiti

Throughout those dismal months my life was only sparked alight when I made love to you. As the firefly ignites and fades, ignites and fades, we follow the flashes of its flight in the dark among the olive trees. Throughout those dismal months, my soul sat slumped and lifeless but my body walked to yours. The night sky was lowing. We milked the cosmos secretly, and survived. -Tomas Tranströmer, translator unknown thank you, scrapofpaper

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