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Från Lyssnare

Jag var liten i lyssnandets dagar.
/- - -/
Tandlösa munnar berättade i sena höstar
om spetälsk kärrsäd och
beska mjöldrygans blomma.
Jag frös vid min barndoms härd.
 
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I was small in the listening days.
/- - -/
At late harvests toothless mouths told
of leprous marsh-spot in the seed and
the bitter bloom of ergot on the rye.
I grew cold at my childhood hearth
 
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