After a veil of rain,
butterflies rise from
the ground. She runs with my
blow n kiss, but its
moi sture in the
air drifts a
part. W here autumn
sm ould ers paper
aeroplanes fly
out of a bonfire’s white
ashes. We gasp for breath and stamp
at the clouds try to step on their faces
like treading after plastic bags, run halting
ly, before we release them and grab each other.
These days I think we’ll stick to each other like fire
until we go out. How mo bile phones go out. How a
blown kiss goes out. The way the light around us goes
out. Until we run around and around in the dark searching
for the switch marked Spring at the back
of our minds.
Translated from the Norwegian by Harry Man