Blackbird Archive
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Poetry · Volume 10, Number 1

Landscape with Suns, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane

Patty Crane

The sun glides out from behind the house

positions itself mid-street

and breathes on us

with its scarlet wind.

Innsbruck I must leave you.

But tomorrow

a glowing sun stands

in the half-dead gray forest

where we have to work and live.

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Patty Crane

Patty Crane’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in American Letters & Commentary , Bellevue Literary Review, RUNES, The Massachusetts Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and West Branch , among other journals. Her awards include the 2004 Two Rivers Review Poetry Prize and Atlanta Review’s 2005 International Publication Prize.