To Friends Behind A Frontier

A Poem For Reiner Fuellmich

No Advent Calendar today. Some nights I just don’t sleep—it’s now 5:24 am.

I’m thinking about Reiner.

All the many years I thought about, and studied Tranströmer’s incredible poem “To Friends Behind A Frontier,” (which he wrote for two friends in former GDR,) I never understood it like I do right now.

This poem is for Reiner Fuellmich.

(And for his wi…