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Memories Look at Me: a Poem by Tomas Tranströmer
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Posted Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011, at 10:23 AM
Last week, the poet Colin Cheney recommended the three books you should read first by Tomas Tranströmer, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Among those three was The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems. Here is one of the poems from that collection, translated from the Swedish by Robin Fulton, and reprinted with the permission of New Directions.
Memories Look at Me
A June morning, too soon to wake,
too late to fall asleep again.
I must go out—the greenery is dense
with memories, they follow me with their gaze.
They can’t be seen, they merge completely into
the background, true chameleons.
They are so close that I can hear them breathe
though the birdsong is deafening.
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