tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629935248254565924.post1651177421307053359..comments2023-06-25T11:49:34.055+01:00Comments on cloudgatherer hold me down: there is a golden vein threaded through us allcloudgathererholdmedownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09367513733859157300noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629935248254565924.post-33250735994037943142016-08-14T19:33:52.355+01:002016-08-14T19:33:52.355+01:00good god, yes.
xgood god, yes.<br /><br />xcloudgathererholdmedownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09367513733859157300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629935248254565924.post-4965247988731343082016-08-14T17:57:36.604+01:002016-08-14T17:57:36.604+01:00Yes, of course it hurts when buds are breaking.
Wh...Yes, of course it hurts when buds are breaking.<br />Why else would the springtime falter?<br />Why would all our ardent longing<br />bind itself in frozen, bitter pallor?<br />After all, the bud was covered all the winter.<br />What new thing is it that bursts and wears?<br />Yes, of course it hurts when buds are breaking,<br />hurts for that which grows<br /> and that which bars.<br /><br />Yes, it is hard when drops are falling.<br />Trembling with fear, and heavy hanging,<br />cleaving to the twig, and swelling, sliding –<br />weight draws them down, though they go on clinging.<br />Hard to be uncertain, afraid and divided,<br />hard to feel the depths attract and call,<br />yet sit fast and merely tremble –<br />hard to want to stay<br /> and want to fall.<br /><br />Then, when things are worst and nothing helps<br />the tree’s buds break as in rejoicing,<br />then, when no fear holds back any longer,<br />down in glitter go the twig’s drops plunging,<br />forget that they were frightened by the new,<br />forget their fear before the flight unfurled –<br />feel for a second their greatest safety,<br />rest in that trust<br /> that creates the world.<br /><br />Karin Boye, <i>Ja visst gör det ont</i> (1935), transl. David McDuff <a href="http://karinboye.se/verk/dikter/dikter-en-mcduff-forthetreessake.shtml" rel="nofollow">*</a>tentaculitidaehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03581590425391323719noreply@blogger.com