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Poem

Cecilie Løveid

NEW RITUALS

We carry up
everything that will be used
for the impromptu altar

We carry sketches
for a new sky
and a new earth

We carry suggestions
for new clouds above towns
new towns above clouds

Look!
The clouds are twirling with felt pen
are whispered, watered down,
camouflaged, washed out, winched

In sketches for new stage coulisses
a child is carried carefully forth
to sex violence and death

NYE RITUALER

NYE RITUALER

Vi bærer opp
alt som skal brukes
til det spontane alteret

Vi bærer utkast
til en ny himmel
og en ny jord

Vi bærer forslag
til nye skyer over byer
nye byer over skyer

Se!
Skyene driver med tusjtegning
hviskes, tynnes,
kamufleres, viskes, vinsjes

I skisser til nye kulisser
bæres et barn varsomt frem
til sex vold og død
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NEW RITUALS

We carry up
everything that will be used
for the impromptu altar

We carry sketches
for a new sky
and a new earth

We carry suggestions
for new clouds above towns
new towns above clouds

Look!
The clouds are twirling with felt pen
are whispered, watered down,
camouflaged, washed out, winched

In sketches for new stage coulisses
a child is carried carefully forth
to sex violence and death

NEW RITUALS

We carry up
everything that will be used
for the impromptu altar

We carry sketches
for a new sky
and a new earth

We carry suggestions
for new clouds above towns
new towns above clouds

Look!
The clouds are twirling with felt pen
are whispered, watered down,
camouflaged, washed out, winched

In sketches for new stage coulisses
a child is carried carefully forth
to sex violence and death
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