SUDDENLY TODAY AT FIVE O'CLOCK

Lassi Nummi(1928-2012)

Just as we stepped out of the store

              to a slushy street

a red balloon detached from your hand

- even when you have a hand

which red balloons love -

and fell

upwards

to the black chasm of the space.

Äkkiä tänään kello viisi(1984) has been translated from page 496 in the anthology - edited by Satu Marttila (Satu Koskimies, 1941-), Juha Virkkunen(1941-2008) and Mirjam Polkunen(1926-2012) - Tämän runon haluaisin kuulla 2(1989).

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