#Mikaela Grassl

[majestativa]

The velvet-dark […] by my side without reflections.

— Tomas Tranströmer, The Sorrow Gondola/Sorgegondolen, transl by Michael McGriff and Mikaela Grassl, (2010)

[lapeaudelamemoire]

The eternally streaming moment and its stain. The eternally bleeding point of the moment.

Tomas Tranströmer, From the Island, 1860, tr. Michael McGriff & Mikaela Grassl

[the-end-of-art]

The only thing I want to say

April and Silence by Tomas Tranströmer translated by Michael McGriff and Mikaela Grassl Spring lies deserted. The velvet-dark ditch crawls by my side without reflections. All that shines are yellow flowers. I’m carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case. The only thing I want to say gleams out of reach like the silver in a pawnshop.

[these-summer-nights-in-december]

Landscape with Suns | Tomas Tranströmer

Landscape with Suns | Tomas Tranströmer The sun emerges from behind the house stands in the middle of the street and breathes on us with its red wind. Innsbrück I must leave you. But tomorrow there will be a glowing sun in the grey, half-dead forest where we must work and live.

~

Translated from the Swedish by Michael McGriff with Mikaela Grassl Via AGNI

[majestativa]

I swim out in a trance on the glittering dark waters.

— Tomas Tranströmer, The Sorrow Gondola/Sorgegondolen, transl by Michael McGriff and Mikaela Grassl, (2010)

[majestativa]

The bright shore hypnotizes the dark one.

— Tomas Tranströmer, The Sorrow Gondola/Sorgegondolen, transl by Michael McGriff and Mikaela Grassl, (2010)

[majestativa]

November offers candies made of granite. Unpredictable!

— Tomas Tranströmer, The Sorrow Gondola/Sorgegondolen, transl by Michael McGriff and Mikaela Grassl, (2010)