FROM A CERTAIN POEM

Olli-Matti Ronimus(1929-2005)

He who fell asleep drowned

in a net of rushes.

Ships and routes, roads on water

went over a mouth

which only water sang

Eräästä runosta was translated from an anthology which was edited by Hannu Mäkelä(1943-), Uuden runon kauneimmat 1(1970, 1. printing 1968), page 233. This anthology was selected from an earlier one, which had been edited by Osmo Hormia(1926-83), Uuden runon kauneimmat : valikoima modernia suomalaista lyriikkaa vuosilta 1946-1956(1958).