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Poems in ICE-FLOE, International Poetry of the Far North

Poems in ICE-FLOE, International Poetry of the Far North
Author
Jónas Þorbjarnarson
Publisher
Ice-Floe Press
Place
Anchorage, Alaska
Year
2002
Category
English translations

The poem Direction was published in ICE-FLOE (Vol. III, No.1, 2002).

Direction

White
but fading brushstrokes
over a distant landscape:


two swans
took off flying


good painting or a bad one—
it's not mine
I didn't even frighten the swans

trans. Hallberg Hallmundsson

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