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    As Ripe As A Fruit

    As 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.