“What looks at first like a confrontation turns out to be a connection.”
I like how Nobel Prize-winning poet Tomas Tranströmer talked about his poetry:
My poems are meeting places. Their intent is to make sudden connections between aspects of reality that conventional languages ordinarily keep apart. Large and small details of the landscape meet, divided cultures and people flow together in a work of art. Nature meets industry, etc. What looks at first like a confrontation turns out to be a connection. (Quoted by poet and Tranströmer translator Malena Mörling, here: https://uncw.edu/writers/faculty/morling.html)
These frictions and affinities generate energy.
With this in mind, enjoy two poems by Tranströmer:
“After a Death”: Once there was a shock / that left behind a long, shimmering comet tail. …
“Outskirts”: Men in overalls the same color of the earth rise from a ditch. …
(Photo by Marcin Ryczek)
Karina Borowicz 