From STONE DREAMED” (STEINDRØMT, 1985)
translated by Susan Schwartz Senstad and the writer
I.
a gray green glance
slowly stopped the rain
into ice
in the eye
a closed up mirror
opens its dark
person
horror stricken
hazard
black
core of resistance
an opus
of dread
plucking the strings
autumn extinguished
the precious trees
and the children
have turned to black spikes
a stone
to end up with
after all shadows
a place
till the earth ends
a stone
to bow one’s thoughts to
all snow
reminiscent of
earth shall vanish
a thought
of stone
a place to begin
III.
no salvation
or seduction
only
the truth
of my moments
a cultivated frost form
in a stone garden
the moon
above the mountain
beneath the mountain
one second
in the avalanche
my face
stone head, hit
stone eye, see
so much I can do
unfaithful
stone tongue
lick me
pure and salt
and saltier, bird
like seaweed
on skin
a pure glance
a black light
into the depths
we disappear
IV.
through the darkness
with you
my stone glance
my stone man’s
hard lips
kiss the sole life
in me
only thus
am I given
feeling
in stone