Keld Vorup Sørensen: 'Som Fuglen'

The below translation is from a debut collection of poetry by the Danish writer Keld Vorup Sørensen. The collection, Glemslens Territorier, appeared in 2020, published by mellemgaard.

LIKE THE BIRD

Like the bird blindly

finds its way

into the feline belly

memory disappears

unresisting into oblivion

Landscapes of brazen barrenness and smolten stone

surfaces that go on growing

emptied of landfalls and traces –

only the hoar frost visible

before time’s curvature

I lean back

against the years’ hard-fired brickwork

of wrested life

and disappear

soundlessly

into the rime