No 58
(a crofter`s cottage)
that
houses like these
could put up so many
half-grown lads in short pants, girls wearing clogs
and second-hand Sunday dresses
some of them with sinewed limbs
or slightly crooked
in honour of the photographer they peer into
the world which has hardly awakened
gradually
spread
across the islands
with children on the loose in the neighbouring villages
received letters from relatives in Canada
or those displaced to outskirts faraway
in the soil of the graveyard
where the sun tells fortunes in their intestines
one more time
(58 from kjensla av at det ikkje regnar andre stader enn her 2004 translated into english by Hilde Petra Brungot)
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