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fragments from the cruellest month

Posted on 1 April 2011 by dandelion

As Eliot puts it: “Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow…” The late Swedish poet Karin Boye is another poet who has expressed the painful drama of spring exquisitely in her famous poem Of Course It Hurts (Visst gör … Continue reading →

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spring

Posted on 1 April 2010 by dandelion

The spring IS here. The warm, reddish, yellow  light from the sunset is flooding through  my study room window as I write (it is almost 7.30 pm here  when I’m writing this). This window is facing west-north-west and in the … Continue reading →

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