torsdag, april 26, 2007

I am not the lover you asked for

I AM NOT THE LOVER YOU ASKED
FOR, that remorse-light gaze
through the winter mirror of the city
light, or softer cries
muted year
by year

but like the darkness I yearn into you,
gather and
sink just as continuously as ill-timed.
As elaborate as
the difference between born and dead


----- Morten Øen (translated by David McDuff. From The Other Side of Landscape: An Anthology of Contemporary Nordic Poetry (2006).
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4 kommentarer:

  1. Admin4/27/2007 3:17 a.m.

    wow, that's wonderful.

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  2. HB5/04/2007 12:16 p.m.

    Yes, I think so too :-)

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  3. Morten Øen6/19/2008 2:03 p.m.

    I'm very honored. Thanks to both of you.

    M-)

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  4. HB6/27/2008 6:09 p.m.

    Så artig å få kommentar fra forfatteren! Fant det i Morgenbladet, så jeg satset på at det var greit å legge det ut. Flotte bilder på din blogg!

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