Published in May 2006 for Guernica Magazine.
http://www.guernicamag.com/poetry/165/three_haiku/
~~~
Night-a twelve-wheeler
goes by making the dreams of
the inmates shiver
~~~
The boy drinks his milk
and sleeps cozy in his cell,
a mother of stone
~~~
They kicked the football
suddenly confusion-the ball
flies over the wall.
[translated from a Swedish book for boys in prison by Robert Bly]
Tomas Tranströmer was born in 1931 in Stockholm, Sweden. He attended the University of Stockholm, where he studied psychology and poetry. His books of poetry include The Half-Finished Heaven (Graywolf Press, 2001); New Collected Poems (1997); For the Living and the Dead (1995); Baltics (1974); Paths (1973); Windows and Stones (1972), an International Poetry Forum Selection and a runner-up for the National Book Award for translation; The Half-Finished Sky (1962); and Seventeen Poems (1954).
Robert Bly is a celebrated poet and translator. Author of over 30 books of poetry, including The Night Abraham Called to the Stars (HarperCollins, 2001); Snowbanks North of the House (1999); What Have I Ever Lost by Dying?: Collected Prose Poems (1992); Loving a Woman in Two Worlds (1987); Mirabai Versions (1984); This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood (1977); and The Light Around the Body (1967), which won the National Book Award. (from poets.org)