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Tranströmer, Tomas - from Along the Lines (Far North)
Identifier
025711
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background

A description of the experience
from Along the Lines (Far North)
I.
Sun glints from the frozen river.
This is the roof of the earthball.
Silence.
I sit on an overturned boat pulled up on shore,
and swallow the silence-potion.
I am slowly turning.
II.
A wheel stretches out endlessly, it is turning.
The hub is here, is nearly
motionless....
Some movement farther out: tracks in the snow
words that begin to slide
past building fronts
There's a hum of traffic from the highway
as well as the silent traffic
of the dead as they return.
Farther out: tragic masks bracing the wind,
the roar of acceleration. Still farther away
the rushing
where the last words of love evaporate-
raindrops that creep slowly
down steel wings . . .
The source of the experience
Tranströmer, TomasConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Great Work, theScience Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Suppressions
Being left handedBelieving in the spiritual world
LOVE
Reducing desires
Squash the big I am