More Poetry for Memorial Day: Tomas Tranströmer’s The Half-Finished Heaven

From here:

Despondency breaks off its course.
Anguish breaks off its course.
The vulture breaks off its flight.

The eager light streams out,
even the ghosts take a draught.

And our paintings see daylight,
our red beasts of the ice-age studios.
Everything begins to look around.
We walk in the sun in hundreds.

Each man is a half-open door
leading to a room for everyone.

The endless ground under us.

The water is shining among the trees.

The lake is a window into the earth.

To all of the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces who unselfishly sacrificed their lives so we can live as we do today:

Thank you.#MemorialDay pic.twitter.com/sW7kUVTBns

— World War II History (@WW2Facts) May 27, 2019