ONE BROTHER MORE

You cannot remake the world

Calm your turbulent spirit

There is only one thing you can do:

good to another.

But this in itself is so much

that the very stars will smile.

One hungry person less

means one brother more.

(Stig Dagerman)

THE INCHWORM

I lean out from my cherry leaf

and peer towards eternity:

eternity is far too big today

far too blue and thousand-leagued

I think I'll stay on my cherry leaf

and take the measurements of my green cherry leaf

(Werner Aspenström)