“Without moving anything / I want to see / the way this autumn / makes the birds move.”

— Mirkka Rekola

From Syksy muuttaa linnut (Autumn Moves the Birds, 1961. 88 Poems, WSOY, 2000, ISBN 951-0-24783-9. Translated by Anselm Hollo).

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