John Matthias (USA) and Göran Printz-Påhlson (Sweden)

Conclusion of Gösta Fribeberg's 'The Growing', translated from the Swedish

. . . Protect the great and magic parts of the earth: Forests

Animals, oceans, plants. We must protect them

In this decade, give them all the power that we can . . .

Protect the strong and weak lights of the firmament,

So that they can unexpectedly be found

in the eyes of the unborn . . . .                                                           

Protect

The daylight whose invisible energies

Vanish in waves across the tops of fir trees . . .

If there were nothing there

To meet the waves from below

They would continue straight on downwards

In enormous blackness . . .

*

The entirely beautiful

Tiny face of the ant

Next to a spruce needle –

And she takes hold of the needle, coaxing

Its green splendour to its place

                                   On its back,

Carries it home.

*

           The earth’s

           Faintly glowing

           Egg

           On a leaf.          And the glowworm

Curved around it – like the weak, faraway

           Light from our Galaxy:                       The Giving-of-birth.

The Growing

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