fredag 11. mars 2011

Øystein Orten: POEMS IN ENGLISH

christmas eve


the reverend
had started going on about
angels and the baby jesus


the snow was thriving in the light
from the bus station


watercombed children sitting restlessly
wishing for chrome bolts of steel


at the back, by the door sat the sisters
from the valley


it was mary, martha
and the other mary



(julekveld from havflammen 1995 translated into english by Margrete Trovåg)

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