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    ALL THINGS YOU CONTAIN...

     

    All things you contain, more than a mortal can thole.
    You are light and darkness in a double bowl.
    How the one shimmers, naked and cool.
    Mother-of-pearl air over water of pale opal.
    Seeing, seen,
    ready for day's gleam
    dawns slowly open their mussel shell.
    But dim and still does the other brood,
    also a mussel, though deeply there, where the sea is mute.
    Un-broken-up,
    since creation closed
    it protects the mother-sleep's secret room.
    All things you are, the whole of my being's goal.
    You are the day and the night in a double bowl.


    Translated into English by David McDuff in "Karin Boye: Complete poems".

    Swedish original



    Copyright © 2005:
    Translation from Swedish into English: David McDuff

    Published with the permission of:
    David McDuff, translation.
    May and Hans Mehlin, Layout.

    For more information, please visit the website of David McDuff and his own pages with the translations.

     
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