Thursday, May 3, 2012

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Meteoriten i Riksmuseet

Stor som en välfylld säck potatis
vilar denna himmelska järnklump

i museets frid. Med ytan veckad
på ett sätt som osökt erinrar

om en blottlagd mänsklig hjärna
har den något lillgammalt över sig.

Den fanns före detta planetsystem.
Slutligen funnen på Grönland

var den på väg till denna jord
långt innan denna jord kom till.

Oförskräckt fallande genom
de största, de djupaste mörkren

 pilspets plogbill som ett ögonblick till sist
 blev svärd som flammade, osedd av ögon

i den kambriska natt då den blev vår gäst.
             
Och när nu jag, högst tillfällige,
ett ögonblick låter fingrarna glida
               
över denna stumma, sällsamt stilla yta,
denna alltför erfarna droppe ur djupen

tycks den, stilla och klok,
enbart utstråla tankspridd förbindlighet.
               

2 comments:

  1. Dear Lars Gustafsson, Thanks for the poem about the meteor. Is the Riksmuseet in Stockholm ? I have a friend there, she is persian. When she studied here in Munich, I invited her to watch the Persides meteor showers in August. But she thought I'm joking. She just did not believed that there really exist "stjaernfallen". She thought it is pure mythology, just like an Unicorn or like Angels. But we were lucky and really experienced some of the most spectaculous meteors in August 2010. A year later, she was already back in Stockholm, I did a calculation of how likely it is that two observers, one here in Munich and the other up there in Stockholm could observed the same meteor. The calculation is here (http://persian-cat.de/?p=1234), and you will see it is a bit more complicate than the probability to watch the same star (this would be of cause almost 100%).
    I have to make a new calculation, however, about the chance to meet a famous Swedish author, who gives a lecture in Mainz University
    (about 270 km away from Munich), if this author does not announce this event in his blog.

    best regards
    Michael

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  2. Dear Lars Gustafsson,
    I forgot to tell you: The extremely small character size of the Swedish version of the meteor poem does not really encourage readers to learn Swedish. One will be convinced ones again that English is so much easier !!!!
    Michael

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