English Engelska الإنجليزيّة
the inscription of the cold
still aches in my skeleton
I saw snow heavy spruces
and dreamt about palm trees
the snow stole
the features of the houses
everyone I passed
looked the same
windows like gobs
with empty stares
I escaped my whole life
the swelling snow
the stabbing blue light
the constant state
of hibernation
the cold hurls arrows
from its nest
deep inside of me
I comfort eat and
drink barrels of tea
dress until I sweat
still the cold burns
I will never defrost
I scroll among photos
of palm trees, suns
and everything I
spent my life
longing for
of all the photos
I'm caught by one
a pale dim blue
snow poisoned
view from a road
two houses, no features
I see it for the
thousandth time
and the first
one of the houses
reaches out its
porch roof against
the other that
does not
the houses have
been on each
side of the road
my entire life
without touching
was the tense fright
that I saw in the
windows of the gable
in fact a yawn?
petrified by the cold
I keep driving
like always
I will never lean
agains a date palm
until I dare to step
out of my car, fall
and let the snow
embrace me
still aches in my skeleton
I saw snow heavy spruces
and dreamt about palm trees
the snow stole
the features of the houses
everyone I passed
looked the same
windows like gobs
with empty stares
I escaped my whole life
the swelling snow
the stabbing blue light
the constant state
of hibernation
the cold hurls arrows
from its nest
deep inside of me
I comfort eat and
drink barrels of tea
dress until I sweat
still the cold burns
I will never defrost
I scroll among photos
of palm trees, suns
and everything I
spent my life
longing for
of all the photos
I'm caught by one
a pale dim blue
snow poisoned
view from a road
two houses, no features
I see it for the
thousandth time
and the first
one of the houses
reaches out its
porch roof against
the other that
does not
the houses have
been on each
side of the road
my entire life
without touching
was the tense fright
that I saw in the
windows of the gable
in fact a yawn?
petrified by the cold
I keep driving
like always
I will never lean
agains a date palm
until I dare to step
out of my car, fall
and let the snow
embrace me