Translations
Like the trees
by Nanna Storr-HansenTranslated from Danish by Christopher Sand-Iversen
Like the trees
I grow
upward
is it especially
human
what is it
about height
picking your way
through the
abyssal depths
when someone finally
makes you groan
now there’s enough money
I can look like a
bride
any time
you like
coddle the next
feeling
by taking notice
those hands that follow you
through the night
the spastic
line breaks
in ecstasy
coddle the next
sentence
by writing it down
a kind of
abyss
deep as a house
a kind of
salesman’s gene
that I want to tell you
how I’m feeling