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

The poems Myndaskoðun (Looking at Pictures) and Dýraljóð (Beastly Poem), published in ICE-FLOE (Vol. VI, No.2: 2005).

Looking at Pictures
 
There we are
along with the almighty
at the site of execution
before you shaved

here you've grown
the long beard in
which you were hanged
and in this little picture

I can be seen without you

(65)

Beastly Poem

The spirited beast
insatiable

each nerve
each bone
every tooth

knows well
my loins
belly and breasts

under it
abandoned to
beastly thoughts

loaded with hope

(67)

trans. Hallberg Hallmundsson