12 July 2026

Outrageous Grace



There is a kind of out-of-sight dreaming

that never stops. Light for other eyes.

A zone where creeping thoughts learn to walk.

Faces and forms regrouped.

We're moving on a street, among people

in blazing sun.

But just as many—maybe more

we don't see

are in dark buildings,

high on both sides.

Sometimes one of them comes to the window

and glances down on us.


Tomas Tranströmer, from the poem Dream Seminar (trans Swedish)

 


Downtown, the people scene, the seen and the unseen.