Quoting Tomas Tranströmer, Two Cities from The Sorrow Gondola, 1996

I swim out in a trance
on the glittering dark water.
A steady note of a tuba comes in.
It’s a friend’s voice: “Take up your grave and walk.

— Tomas Tranströmer, Two Cities from The Sorrow Gondola, 1996

6:48pm on October 5, 2024 from Turkey.


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