CHORUS (Bly 1974, pp.81)
it has been this way forever it will be this way forever
until the last man dreams fire and the end / has come
until we revolt against everything in order to destroy / ourselves
break out of the circle and turn away from / reality
and breathe in so deeply that we faint
so deeply that the whole Milky Way blazes in our lungs
and then we can disappear into the northeast
with a calm face
∞
Most translated poems by Gunnar Ekelöf on seven languages.
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