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    Everything Contains You

    Everything contains you,  more than a deadly
      toll.
    You are light and darkness in a double bowl.
    
    How one shimmers naked and cool.
    Air of mother-of-pearl over water of pale opal.
    Seeing, seen,
    dressed for the day
    dawn slowly opens its oyster shell.
    
    But the other broods quiet and dusky,
    also an oyster, but down deep where the sea is
      still.
    Unopened,
    since the end of creation
    defending the secret room of a mother's
      slumber.
    
    Everything is you, the whole of my essence's
      goal.
    You are the day and night in a double bowl.


    Translated into English by Jenny Nunn in "To a friend".

    Swedish original



    Copyright © 1997:
    Translation from Swedish into English: Jenny Nunn

    Published with the permission of:
    Jenny Nunn, translation.
    May and Hans Mehlin, Layout.
     
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