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As Ripe As A FruitAs ripe as a fruit lies the world in my arms, it ripened last night, and the peel is the thin blue membrane which extends around it like a bubble, and the sap is the sweet and fragrant, running, burning stream of sunlight. And out in the transparent universe I run like a swimmer, drowned in the christening of ripeness and born to the power of ripeness. Consecrated into an act, as light as a laugh I divide a golden sea of honey, which my hungry hands desire. Translated into English by Jenny Nunn in "To a friend". Swedish original Copyright © 1997: Translation from Swedish into English: Jenny Nunn Swedish original: Ulf Boye Published with the permission of: Jenny Nunn, translation. Ulf Boye, copyright of the Swedish original. May and Hans Mehlin, Layout. |