The Great Enigma by Tomas Transtromer

Author:Tomas Transtromer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry, Poetry / Continental European, Poetry / Swedish
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2006-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

THE TRUTHBARRIER

SANNINGSBARRIÄREN

1978

• I •

Citoyens

The night after the accident I dreamt of a pockmarked man

who walked through the alleys singing.

Danton!

Not the other one—Robespierre doesn’t take such walks,

Robespierre spends a careful hour each morning on his toilette,

the rest of the day he devotes to The People.

In the paradise of the pamphlets, among the machines of virtue.

Danton—

or the man who wore his mask

seemed to be standing on stilts.

I saw his face from beneath.

Like the scarred moon,

half in light, half in mourning.

I wanted to say something.

A weight in the breast, the plummet

that makes the clocks go,

the hands turn: year 1, year 2 . . .

A sharp scent like sawdust in the tiger stalls.

And—as always in dreams—no sun.

But the walls were shining

in the alleys that curved

down to the waiting room, the curved room,

the waiting room where we all . . .

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