Doctor Nikola
Doctor Nikola brings needle tips, electric shocks and bitter potion sips. He peddles hope when all is hopeless, but hands you rope and noose when checks are bouncing. Doctor Nikola […]
Category Archives: free verse
Beneath a frozen moon
Inside this well — I wait, depressed I watch as daylight teases; its solemn disc unmoving (a frozen moon). My hope is strings, too thin too few to twin(e) myself […]
The river is complicit
She had been walking by the banks and talked to sailors; in the taverns there were whispers and we made millstones out of rumors even long before the night when […]
The shadow of a boxer
On the edge of shadows with lidless amber watchful eyes we play and prance; two boxers me and him; we circle tiptoe; wait. Soft like snow our footfalls with retracted […]
Button sighs unsated
A button bold anti- cipated stiff. Streams in stars and silence. It’s important even if a darkly tear of more (or evidence of welcomes). Of broken laps, bones and in […]
Björn Rudbergs writings 