'At the Bottom of Things,' by Karin Boye

Poem, translated from the Swedish by David McDuff, translator of Boye's Complete Poems (a great book), from Bloodaxe Books. Boye (1900-1941) was an important Swedish Modernist poet, fiction writer, and essayist. Image and clips from vega610, kumbalasuthuvom, mohammed_hassen, and TheDigitalWay on Pixaby, used by permission: thanks.