Bread and rice
Sylla-bled each word,each sense,each scent, the parting sentence“au revoir, in Paris mon amour”the parrot says,again, again. She recallshis uniformand paddy fields, the river deltahis bicycle, both bread and rice. Waiting, […]
Category Archives: poetry
The delight of damnation
Delight me darling, smile and dancelet’s enjoy and spend the nightthen melt together take the chanceI’ll be your shining knight We were meant to fuse, amalgamatealloyed forever we’re strongbut first […]
Becoming the beach
“Time was a wave, almost cruel in its relentlessness.”― Han Kang, The Vegetarian Often as I age I think about sea-glass, I still remember the sharp edges, my toddler-rage, when […]
A killer Smug
Before the blizzard there is fallwith colours kissed by frost at nightwhen darkness grows as winter callsBefore the blizzard there is fallwhen still the daylight can be brightin days of […]
Librarians from the past
In the cellars underneath the marble hallsamong discarded manuscripts, cataloguesand inventories the ghosts of old librarianshaunts the crumbling vaults. While roamingwild they sigh in dewey decimal, bemoaningorders lost to dust […]
Björn Rudbergs writings 