Monday, 27 April 2020

Werner Aspenström: 'Ansiktet'

THE FACE

Here a woman’s standing combing her hair,
her extremely long, chestnut-brown,
her crackling hair.

And here a child’s sitting on a floor waiting
for the face, hidden behind the crackling curtain
to become visible again.

The same eyes! The same nostrils! The same mouth!

The infant child shrieks.
The grown-up child swallows its shriek.
The aged child mumbles.

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