Night Travel, Tomas Tranströmer | translation by Patty Crane

← v10n1, Spring 2011

It’s teeming under us. Trains depart.

Hotel Astoria trembles.

A glass of water by the bedside

shines into the tunnels.

He dreamed he was imprisoned on Svalbard.

The planet rumbled as it turned.

Glittering eyes passed over the ice.

The miracles’ beauty existed.

translation travel dream

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.