Summer evening
Outside Stockholm it is close to eight o’clock in the evening. The sun shines through the living room windows and I hear the loud singing from a party of students […]
Monthly Archives: June 2024
Defeated by the city
Cars, passing, their headlightsilluminating the cadaverof autumn’s last hedgehogand our neighbour’s daughtersbury the hedgehogamong the wet leaves in the little parkopposite to our buildningI listen to them sobbingwalking to the […]
The silence inbetween
Between the shelves of early modernand mediaeval historyhe rests his head betweenhis knees and dreamspretending to be asleepbelow the tarmac of a parking lot. He sense the silenceafterwards,the king’s corpse […]
That spice
Always afterwardsthey tiptoed,figleafed far away —shy and shunned;fallenfor figmental vicebut, oh so nice … that spiceforever scorchedon skin, the blissbeliefs called sin. but still a single kissarousesvows to perish, burn […]
A circle of time
Guided by moon-sickle silverwe seek in the darkness a riverof dreams leading from duskinto twilight of dawn, but struckby fears of creature and crimewe’re locked in this circle of timewhere […]
Björn Rudbergs writings 