Author: Sanna Karlström
Where we are now
30 December 2004 | Fiction, poetry
Poems from Taivaan mittakaava (‘The scale of the sky’, Otava, 2004)
Architect
Behind your back the city’s changing,
across the sky a crane’s swinging
ready-made components.
A tie splits the architect’s white shirt,
his paired limbs and individual organs,
two lanes, left and right.
You and I are precisely planned.
Even now we’re on a ruler’s edge. More…