Tomas Tranströmer

Nobel-prize-winning poet Tomas Tranströmer was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on April 15, 1931 to Helmy, née Westerberg, and Gösta Tranströmer. His mother Helmy was a schoolteacher and his father was a journalist; they

April and Silence

by Tomas Tranströmer (1931–2015)

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Spring lies desolate.

The velvet-dark ditch

crawls by my side

without reflections.

The only thing that shines

is yellow flowers.

I am carried in my shadow
like a violin
in its black case.

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