(titled "Loneliness" in another poet's translation), is a description of a near-accident in which the speaker's car skids on an icy winter road: "I was nearly killed here, one night in February./My car shivered and slewed sideways on the ice,/right across into the other lane." But Tranströmer is also comparing that terrifying situation to the feeling of estrangement from life that comes with depression. By a stroke of luck, the speaker avoids disaster and his isolation is broken when "I sat back in my seat belt/and watched someone tramp through the whirling snow/to see what was left of me."from Barbara Carey: Toronto Star: Nobel prize winner Tomas Tranströmer's The Deleted World
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