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The executioner is dangerous when he’s bored.
The burning heaven coils.
Knocking is heard from cell to cell
and space streams up out of the ground frost.
Some of the stones shine like full moons.
This Issue
October 8, 1998
Tomas Tranströmer
Tomas Tranströmer is the recipient of the the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature. (November 2011)
Samuel Charters
Samuel Charters is a poet, novelist, and translator. (October 1998)
This Issue
October 8, 1998
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