Johannes S. H. Bjerg 40 Minor Displacements like when you’re a bird in a cage on a table in a train that never reaches Lisboa like when you say arm but really mean hope or daffodil like when from a low hanging branch you pick the eyeballs of winter like when you dress in shadows calling them hat, coat and pants but they’re made of ants like when a nation’s collective consciousness is shaped by sit-coms like when the shadow of your hand remains on the table peeling a shadow orange like when your chair doesn’t want to know of you like when you watch the Evening Land’s Evening Land’s continual internal drowning and think of a sponge like when there’s no “shop” on your shopping list like when you dream the grass’ dreams in winter like when snow becomes wons and you can’t shovel it like when you find a butterfly’s wing in your astral shoe like when the seasons change without you like when light thinks you’re a stranger like when defrosting your fridge you find your misspent youth like when your black dog does nothing but breathe you in the face like when your imaginary son comments on your use of hats like when a nation has to make up superheroes to cope like when you think it’s a grown up thing to discard of your vocabulary like when you’re a tree like when the shadows in your room begin to leak nails like when you use Sartre as an excuse for blowing bubbles at your age like when winter’s tuning fork detunes you like when the mugwort sleeps under your eyelids with your onion puppet like when a freshly made duck of ink heads for the lake like when the nurses turn your veins inside out to find your ship like when you run out of options but into a wall of glue like when you order Primal Fear Deluxe and get a pair of carpet slippers like when inside the conch’s ocean you build a cardboard island like when your watch can only tell the number of sparrows falling like when the egg you thought of as a friend becomes a Moonie like when your biometrics add up to a 7 hole golf courseprevious page contents next page
posted by mark young at 10:40 AM
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absolutely stunning !
Both of these are really great reads, Johannes.
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