Øystein Orten: POEMS IN ENGLISH

this is a different country

  

this is a different country

here is no summer

and no winter

here are no steel guitars

or broad brimmed limousines

under hot sun

only cold sea

grey hills and stubborn heather

here the streamers of the rainbow are not reflected

in thousand windows along the green alleys

here no trains are pursuing

the next capital in a wild chase

no high voltage cathedrals

reach their arms towards the sky

this is a different country

this is a different country

(dette er eit anna land from havflammen 1995 translated into english by Margrete Trovåg)