Will there be soil?
Flooded and burnedfrom dust into ashdrowning in mud,and we namethese disastersinstead of a child. Flowers without any fruitsurveillance and droneswe live to be safebut forget how to thrive. Fall without […]
Monthly Archives: September 2024
Cravings
I, shadowlessled by pale cravingsfollowher scent of lavenderand innocence. Dead yet living,I cannot helpmy yearningsfor the flowersof her youth. So closeI sense the veinsbeneath her skinI bare my teethanointing herto […]
Solvitur ambulando
Ahead is marked by cairns,the pathmeanders, crawlsbeneath the bluffs, acrossa frothing streamover rocks whilestepby stepinside we meetourselves afresh. Later, guided bythe breezeour shadows followridges diving intovalleysnever lost as we followa […]
Library sea – a tableau
by reaching sea-wardshorizon-wide he’sthe last ship to leavebrine-washed and aloneopen book unread every line’s a wavefrom syllables blowncourse laid plotted forfaraway lighthouseto harbours unknown library-oceanmostly unchartedhe is explorerwith compass in […]
Mothers and daughter
I dress in stolen darkness, slipping out unwatched, to meet and mix, skin on skin, belly, buttocks to breasts, misinterpreting teenage cravings as eternal love, believing in forever and I […]
Björn Rudbergs writings 