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    NOWHERE

    I am sick with poison. I am sick with a thirst for which nature has not created any drink.

    From every field leap streams and springs. I stoop down and drink from the earth's veins its sacrament.

    And the heavens overflow with holy rivers. I stretch up and feel my lips wet with white ecstasies.

    But nowhere, nowhere...

    I am sick with poison. I am sick with a thirst for which nature has created no drink.


    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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