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.
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%).
ReplyDeleteI 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
Dear Lars Gustafsson,
ReplyDeleteI 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