blackbirdonline journalSpring 2019  Vol. 18 No. 1
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TOMAS TRANSTRÖMER
translation from Swedish by Patty Crane

Homeward

A telephone call flowed out into the night and glittered in the countryside and suburbs.
Afterward I slept restlessly in the hotel bed.
I was like the needle of a compass carried by an orienteer who’s loping through the woods with
a bounding heart.  


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