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A New Dress

Today for the first time
after seven long years
I put on
a new dress,

But it’s too short for my grief,
too narrow for my sorrow,
and each white-glass button
like a tear
flows down the folds
heavy as a stone.

Stockholm, 1947
Translated by Ruth Whitman

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