Poem

Tone Hødnebø

Side by side

THE SKY is a generator

THE SKY is a generator
humming night and day
The sky builds a system
catching every little movement
from leaves, insects and people.
Industry expands, decennium
after decennium, reproducing itself.

THE SKY is a generator

HIMMELEN er et kraftverk
som durer hele døgnet igjennom,
himmelen konstruerer et system
som fanger opp hver minste bevegelse
fra blader, insekter og mennesker.
En industri ekspanderer, decennium
etter decennium, kopierer seg selv.

Tone Hødnebø

(Norway, 1962)

Tone Hødnebø was born in Oslo and grew up in Tønsberg, a coastal town south of Oslo. She studied in Bergen, where she still lived when her first poetry collection, Larm, was published in 1989. Since then she has published four collections of poetry, a small work on poetics, Skamfulle Pompeii (Shameful Pompeii, 2004, H Press), as well as a translation of Emily Dickinson’s poetry called Skitne li...

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THE SKY is a generator

THE SKY is a generator
humming night and day
The sky builds a system
catching every little movement
from leaves, insects and people.
Industry expands, decennium
after decennium, reproducing itself.

THE SKY is a generator

THE SKY is a generator
humming night and day
The sky builds a system
catching every little movement
from leaves, insects and people.
Industry expands, decennium
after decennium, reproducing itself.