Paavo Haavikko - Fifteen Epigrams in Praise of the Tyrant

Published: Feb. 9, 2017, 7 p.m.

Keep yourself warm
When the pools are freezing,
Here, at the bottom of the sky,

When the sky is thin, and does not hold
And the soul
is set free. -Haavikko

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