Nordic Voices in Translation
A blog mainly about literature and life in the Nordic countries.
Wednesday 9 December 2009
Poem
by Per Kirkeby
Just forgetting won’t pass
one just has to let time pass
Time passes
trees are felled
the stubble’s saw-blades gleam.
(from
Den arktiske ørken
("The Arctic Desert"), Borgen 2004
translated from Danish by David McDuff
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