Freedom of choice
You are given the choice betweenten times ten similar bottles of milk,butter and cream.You may scanthe shelves filled with soapunable to tellwhich one can washyour sorrows away;and you see the […]
Monthly Archives: August 2022
A good night’s sleep
After returning from our through-hike along the Swedish mountain range I ponder the shelters that we found providing protection from rain, wind, and bloodsucking bugs. We carried a tent and […]
Riding with Death
I die with kisses bleeding on my browguarded, hardened by her lies when partingher shadow sieved from sorrow, thus awovedbeauty burning and the bliss of Amor’s dartingclean amissed. my hollow […]
The mouth of darkness
I breathe, closing my eyeslisten to scents, memorieswrapped in urine-ammonia,cabbage and chlorinecigarettes, a fistful of bloodand testeroneous snicker.school —my face pressed into concreteunyielding. the rainas defenseless my tearsturn into marblesknowing […]
Lace and ghosts
Broken by burdens of mornings,lumpy with absenceher pillowcannot bring comfortof nescience,she raises at dawnwith shadows of duskand the dust of their discordswaiting to greet herwhen later returninggreeting the voidsof abandonment, […]
Björn Rudbergs writings 