Time, a muffled sound of footsteps from down below,
renovation has begun in the building across the street.
I have lunch with Bo Carpelan,
his words about aging are unembellished,
yet filled with beauty.
I
taste his sentences on the tip of my tongue,
vaguely sensing something about
what’s yet to come
under his curious but gentle gaze.
A fly darts around,
doesn’t seem to find peace for its restless soul,
its wings carrying an air of
midsummer
in the middle of an August day.
The end of the summer
has a bittersweet tinge.
The end of the summer
has a bittersweet tinge.
"But a chair, sunlight, flowers:
these are not to be dismissed.
I am alive,
I live,
I breathe,
I put my hand out,
into the sunlight."
- Margaret Atwood
Aikaa, kadun puolelta askeleet kantautuvat vaimeina,
vastapäisessä talossa tehdään remonttia.
Lounasseurana Bo Carpelan,
hän puhuu
vanhenemisesta,
kaunistelematta mutta kauniisti.
Maistelen lauseita,
aavistan
jotain hamaa tulevaa,
tunnen uteliaan mutta lempeän katseensa.
Kärpänen
poukkoilee,
ei löydä sielulleen rauhaa,
tuo elokuiseen päivään häivähdyksen
keskikesää.
Loppukesässä suloista haikeutta.
Loppukesässä suloista haikeutta.
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