For stars, from The Star By My Head, Poets from Sweden, edited and translated by Malena Mörling and Jonas Ellerström.
from Eleven Hundred Eighty One / by Bruno K. Öijer b. 1951
until the stars fall down
hitting your shoes with sparkles
21st-Century Swedish Poetry
DPF / Lundquist
For botanical gardens, from The Star By My Head.
from No one will believe me / by Marie Lundquist b. 1950
but there was a time when a woman received compliments for her Pre-Raphaelite colors and the word fortune appeared as a small, enclosed warmth
DPF / Lugn
For words and tiny stitches, from The Star By My Head.
from The Nights Have Become Bigger / by Kristina Lugn b. 1948
soon there is no room for them
in my head anymore
DPF / Tranströmer
For silence, from The Star By My Head: Poets from Sweden, edited and translated by Malena Mörling and Jonas Ellerström.
from April and Silence / by Tomas Tranströmer b. 1931
All I want to say
gleams out of reach
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