Moo

 

 

repeat after me:

in the three thousand one hundred and eighth copy

of the third edition of halldór laxness’s novel independent people

bjartur í sumarhúsum is called karlotta mayer

 

all the bus tickets in rio

all the lower lips in kirkut

all the coat hangers in basle

− when I awake all this shall be yours!

 

where the Plough is reflected in the soup spoon

− that is your home

 

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when the flea and the blue whale meet in the encyclopaedia

they are the same size

when the colours vanish from the national flags

the earth begins to flutter

 

from all the things we learn in the sixty-eighth form by Sjón

 

 

 

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Photo by Sandra Peterson Ramirez.