tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90000112024-03-23T17:48:26.742+00:00Narrow Shoremjóströnd undir jöklinumUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger875125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-34151271971215340992020-03-27T14:04:00.000+00:002020-03-27T14:04:37.887+00:00svá semWhat is it like, it like:<br />
<br />
This time the plane is
enormous. It approaches the Towers as in a slow-motion film, but not in a
film, because I see it live (though it brings death, death). It has
been coming for weeks, and I have been watching it come.<br />
<br />
The nose has (slowly, slowly) pushed through the glass window. The fractures spider out from it further and further.<br />
<br />
It does not slow.<br />
<br />
There is roaring in my ears and a drone in my heart.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-55950987462915202172019-04-16T01:14:00.003+00:002019-04-16T01:14:37.188+00:00norðurrósThe embers are still glowing on the Island in the City. The night is smoky dark. We'll have to wait for morning to see whether the rumors are true, that one great rose still blooms in the north face. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-44393842587505994082019-04-12T14:45:00.001+00:002019-04-12T14:50:57.193+00:00skam<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span lang="IS" style="mso-ansi-language: IS;"><i>Hva da?</i></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="IS" style="mso-ansi-language: IS;">Watch too much tv, and last night's dreams
all take place on the linguistic edge of Norway, where it borders Iceland's
looming bulk. (On my personal map, Iceland has long since outgrown Norway. The words are piled up so deep they've become glassy blue glacial ice, an Orðafjallajökull.)</span><span lang="IS" style="mso-ansi-language: IS;"> All my sentences
started on Oslo's West Side—okay, some in L</span><span lang="IS" style="mso-ansi-language: IS; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ø</span><span lang="IS" style="mso-ansi-language: IS;">kka—but once off the
ground, the <i>austanátt</i> would blow them well out to sea, where they would splash
down with a <i>finnst þér ekki</i>, <i>ef segja má</i>, <i>í alvöru talað</i>, <i>einum of</i>. My interlocutor's
brow would furrow and I'd fumble around in my own mouth for the phrase, embarassed. </span></div>
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<span lang="IS" style="mso-ansi-language: IS;"><i>Æ fyrirgefðu,
sorrí, unnskyld, men det er så ekstremt mye islandsk ofaná, på toppen lissom. La
meg grave litt.</i> </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-46283236324822641542018-05-21T17:25:00.002+00:002018-05-21T17:25:52.921+00:00vanfærtFingertips dig in and rattle over trapezius like a crappy mountain road. Potholes and frost heaves all across my back. The county really should do something about that. <br />
<br />
Or else number the route with an F designation. This is all-wheel drive territory.<br />
<br />
And then there another pair of fingertips and I groan. Bad road or no, I need to get where I'm going.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-78769317546924174772018-05-20T12:13:00.002+00:002018-05-20T12:13:39.769+00:00rabbit rabbit rabbitIn reverse order: <br />
<br />
I saw you kick high, flying over the brush on the corner and out of sight of the wondering dogs. Go!<br />
<br />
I saw you hop lazily into the shade on campus, plopped into the grass from a temporary prison in a recycling bin. Go! And stay out of the street!<br />
<br />
I saw you, the remains of you, broken in the road, and I knew you from the bottom of the garden, watching me side-eyed through the chives.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-65456437286944647232016-02-29T00:00:00.001+00:002016-02-29T00:03:39.891+00:00sér<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #d9ead3;">Sjåande</span><br />
<span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #d9ead3;">Køyrande nordover frå </span><br />
<span style="color: #d9ead3;">Akureyri,</span><br />
<span style="color: #d9ead3;">såg eg eit skip med raude segl.</span><br />
<span style="color: #d9ead3;">Eg snudde meg mot deg og</span><br />
<span style="color: #d9ead3;">spurde</span><br />
<span style="color: #d9ead3;">Om du såg det òg.</span></blockquote>
</blockquote>
<br />
Vel kveðið, finnst henni enn. En kvæðin er leyfi útásandafarna ástarsambands. Textinn fangir raunverulegt augnablik: hún var ekki viss um hvað hún sæi, hvað henni fyndist. Hún bjó í svo miklum vonum, samt. Vildi svo geta treyst tilfinningunum. <br />
<br />
En hún reyndi ekki skyggn, ekki sjáandi, heldur blind.<br />
<br />
Nú sér hún.<br />
<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-71337226330716986462016-02-09T23:36:00.001+00:002016-02-09T23:38:26.367+00:00incisiveIt's only been clever since about <a href="http://etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=incisive" target="_blank">1850</a>.<br />
<br />
Before that it was only the quality of the literal cutting edge, zipping swiftly to some in-more place. The heart? The quick, at least. <br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-11786309855089664452016-01-18T14:30:00.001+00:002016-01-18T14:32:23.631+00:00lesbrigðiTransciption error.<br />
<br />
Happens all the time in manuscripts. Copying by hand invites certain kind of errors. All of them have technical names. Of course they do. The work of the sort of people who copy by hand attracts the sort of people who study that kind of thing, and they are exactly the same sort of people: they like system and dead languages.<br />
<br />
Handverk. Work by hand or, also, craft. Mostly craft, an activity that requires skill. Even the skilled can err. Homer nods, and all that. Even the tiniest, with the finest dainty hands, may slip and churn out nonsense. <br />
<br />
What if, what if (a zillion-to-one) it weren't nonsense but the worst incantation, a formula, once read, that would summon the worst of monsters? The emperor of monsters. What if.<br />
<br />
Quick -- tear out the page. <br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-23134949889766191492015-12-17T17:03:00.002+00:002015-12-17T17:03:18.747+00:00hawk eyeHawk!<br />
<br />
No. A shadow in the branches. <br />
<br />
Dark in the long, mid-morning winter sun and especially stark through polarized glass. The signature of one branch crossing another.<br />
<br />
Or maybe a nest.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-48778316070422064512015-12-14T14:52:00.003+00:002015-12-14T14:52:45.837+00:00dogs in a mixed-faith householdTransitioning from Hanukkah season to Christmas season: gentile dog finds and eats two nights' stash of Hanukkah gelt, then cheerfully poops out glitter.<br />
<br />
Sabbath loaf: Long thought to be mythical (intermittant sightings never confirmed) but recently found to be a very unstable object with half-life measured in fractions of nanoseconds when in the presence of Jewish dog.<br />
<br />
Is the Jewish dog Reform, Conservative, or Orthodox? Reform. Jewish dog does not keep kosher. (Poop is not kosher, not even when pooped by a dog who does keep kosher.)<br />
<br />
Is the Jewish dog observant at all? Possibly: Jewish dog would not eat non-kosher-for-Passover matzoh on Passover. However, the matzoh was several years past its sell-by date.<br />
<br />
Is gentile dog Christian? Unlikely. Has been known to pee on the Christmas tree.<br />
<br />
What is gentile dog's cultural-religious background? Possibly indigenous Siberian, unevangelized. Ritual behavior includes veneration of food offerings and lengthy performance of chant-songs.<br />
<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-56909055418616337542015-04-25T17:45:00.002+00:002015-04-25T17:47:16.046+00:00landvættirCoyote in the Bronx. Puma in Hollywood. Boar in the city of bears, in Berlin, now Boar-lin? Even the fertile family of squirrels who have made the neighbors' eaves into a rodent-filled clown car make me smile. <br />
<br />
I cringe at the news that escaped bison, west-bound, took the mighty Hudson in easy hooféd stride but were felled with lead. It is well that the authorities raised their rifles with sadness. Show some respect. These cliff-headed beasts were the gods of the plains. Make way, make way, and tip your brow, raise your eyes in awe as they pass. <br />
<br />
If I had it to choose which kind of muzzle were aimed at me in the assumed safety of my streets, <br />
the one that barks bullets or the one that bites, I would chose the whiskered one. We have claimed everything here. Would we lose so much by giving back the night? It was never our native land, and we hold it by force.<br />
<br />
Bring the cat in and go inside. Let the coyotes patrol our cities for us. Make way, make way for the gods of the land. Tip your brow and raise your eyes in awe. <br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-15522562303674536032014-06-25T21:49:00.001+00:002014-06-25T21:49:17.957+00:00nei, hæAlways a bit odd to stumble over a firefly midday in the garden, like when you ran into your homeroom teacher in the supermarket. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-87746397636861316562014-06-09T18:55:00.001+00:002014-06-09T18:55:24.937+00:00fjarveraShe hasn't been here. Why hasn't she been here? I'm not certain.<br />
<br />
She's seen sad things: a squirrel, unaware his hindquarters have been crushed flat by a tire, goes about his business gathering nuts and climbing trees. He is so light that he can do this with only the use of his forelimbs, not weighed down by knowledge of his certain death from sepsis, kidney failure, the obvious. Extraordinary, ordinary animal. Then again, his spine was probably severed: he feels nothing. He isn't there the next day. <br />
<br />
This is not the reason. I do not know the reason.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-31463798433877809462014-01-24T02:20:00.001+00:002014-01-24T02:20:10.269+00:00dormirecanisIt is a better world for that dogs dream.<br />
<br />
They sleep away most of the day, draped over the upholstery or sprawled across the carpets. Furry bellows rise and fall, long lips slack, eyes quiet behind velvet lids. I am about my work. But a breath drawn too quick and I look over to see pads spread and clench, ears flick, hear tongue click against palette to draw up cool, phantom water to slake thirst won up running crazed loops around the field of nodding poppies, chamomile, valerian. Another sip and he's off again, racing, still in his chair. <br />
<br />
I am glad they dream. They don't live long. Dreaming half the day, their lives are twice as long. <br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-27671262366079536042013-07-31T23:12:00.000+00:002013-07-31T23:12:08.226+00:00hér, núDisembarking, the scent of flowers washes over her, until she realizes it is the sea.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-21602913712462564562013-03-12T16:05:00.000+00:002013-03-12T16:05:02.780+00:00krabbinnYou have nothing to say to me.<br />
<br />
You never have, but I am less patient now, less willing to grant you polite audience. <br />
<br />
I have heard your incoherent roar before, the rushing sound of thick water against the eardrum as the top of the throat slams shut. You have filled my nighttime head before with mad chattering and dreams of annihilation. <br />
<br />
<br />
I cannot stop you. You will rage and tear through my world and the days and nights of my loved ones, but I will grant you no more of my life, waking and sleeping, than I must.<br />
<br />
You have nothing to say to me, to anyone, and never have. <br />
<br />
You may go to hell.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-51773952382709950192013-02-13T02:03:00.000+00:002013-02-13T02:03:05.867+00:00sopa<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Cardamaro<br />
Islay scotch<br />
two slices of cucumber<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-57577558545867357502013-01-07T15:48:00.005+00:002013-01-07T15:48:42.836+00:00nýárshaukurNew year swoops in, flaring a many-fingered hand of flight feathers, braking in the air for a snatch and drop.<br />
Audubon ought to have seen it, but it's only me and the dog looking on from the corner. <br />
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Now he pauses under the low canopy of a bush.When he flaps up into the tree I can see the limp body in his talons. Last year? Or just yesterday? It's so small and still. <i>Takk fyrir það gamla, það litla. </i><br />
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In any case, good morning, good morning, slate back and clear eyes. <i>Gleðilegt ár.</i> <br />
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<span style="color: #d9ead3;">Yes. It is only polite. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-75139857018654624712012-06-18T23:42:00.001+00:002012-06-18T23:42:26.478+00:00í Danaborg<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Legsteinar, but no longer liggjandi.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-19335222297895776152012-04-21T16:50:00.000+00:002012-04-21T16:50:48.283+00:00hundhelgiThe Icelandic word for <i>personal space</i> is <i style="color: #d9ead3;">mannhelgi</i>.<br />
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The element <i>helgi</i> has to do with sacrality: you see it simply meaning "the holy" in the names of saints, such as Ólafr inn helgi -- Olaf the Saint or Saint Olaf. It's an old word, though, stemming from an old concept of marked-off space. Territorial rights extending beyond the national border proper are <i>landhelgi</i>. For Iceland, an island, this is in practice territorial waters, famously extended 5, then 20, then 100 miles from the rocky shores. This extent is not "holy" in a sense familiar to most people in the modern, vaguely Judeo-Christian West. It is more like whatever animates the idea of to <i>helga sér land</i> like the first settlers of the island when they circumnavigated their claims, shot flaming arrows over them, or performed other ritual actions that said <i>this is inviolate, marked off for me, to me, made mine in a way more than simple property and grazing rights</i>. How else would one understand them? They did not make fences, ditches, defensive works. What they did do must have been meaningful.<br />
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I like this idea of holiness, of sacred space. In the modern West, it feels almost like a secular sacrality. That's probably because we've forgotten this other, older notion of the sacred. <br />
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I kiss the dog on the nose and he moves his head away. I have violated his <i>hundhelgi</i>. I apologize to him.He does not understand my words, nor my intent, but I do it anyway. It is meaningful on a ritual level. <br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-60560318242175551452012-03-31T21:55:00.002+00:002012-03-31T22:11:26.695+00:00fnýs"They sneeze at moments of high emotion."<br /><br />Dogs are strange animals, at any rate until one truly imagines things from their point of view. Then they make very good sense. If they bark at passing trucks, it is because when one barks at approaching trucks, the trucks very obligingly take the hint and go away. Obedient creatures, really. If they shy away from strangers' hands, well, what makes you think any right-thinking person would be comfortable being pawed at by total strangers on the street? I wouldn't be. I might bark at them too, I might. I might even bite.<br /><br />The sneezing, though. Prancing around in hopes of enticing me into play, he may sneeze explosively. Also at the prospect of going for a long-awaited walk. I laugh at him.<br /><br />But I sneeze in bright sunlight. It's been explained to me as a short circuit. My visual receptors flash awake and fire a signal up my optic nerve, fair enough, but the nerve must in my case lie a little too close to my lowest sinuses. The electrochemical flare leaps and I feel it like obnoxious tickling pollen and I sneeze. The dog never laughs at me, busy tugging me down the stairs into the morning.<br /><br />Something must be firing wildly in the head of a prancing dog, his heart so full of feeling, his brain overwhelmed with zooming pulses. Joy must tickle his nose.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-24198688902979327852011-12-19T18:23:00.000+00:002011-12-19T18:27:11.821+00:00allsoðiðBoil everything.<br /><br />This is my post-Yule plan.<br /><br />Bedclothes, potatoes, the dog's well-gnawed cow bones. (I imagine that will stink.) Some festive hot drink. (To drive out the smell of the bones.) Onions and celery and carrots. (To drive out the remainder.)<br /><br />Everything must steam before the New Year.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-70005266998545898742011-12-18T05:35:00.000+00:002011-12-17T18:10:04.412+00:00flugþjónn<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigYRqUqeXCG4Sw0INYNQj7TWJYAS8q0duJv7HW1CfTsuYVe-2Uic5nhl1MKDwn4siYtfkOESjZ9l4QYCkP4BEchywgoNMmgAu8S65RXGxfvS8YQz7gHvHObipOzJY7vKyizp_64g/s1600/flug.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 304px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigYRqUqeXCG4Sw0INYNQj7TWJYAS8q0duJv7HW1CfTsuYVe-2Uic5nhl1MKDwn4siYtfkOESjZ9l4QYCkP4BEchywgoNMmgAu8S65RXGxfvS8YQz7gHvHObipOzJY7vKyizp_64g/s320/flug.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5687153098099716594" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />That's some fire-some wine. The bartender had never poured a flight of whiskey before (whiskey and fine tequila, actually) and mistook it for a wine flight. (Good God, man!) That is my only explanation for this array of riches. Sombra - Macsomething rye - Lagavulin. <span style="font-style: italic;"></span>I explain to curious tablemates that Lagavulin is Laphroaig once it has grown up and stopped being such an asshole. I tell people to whom I would never normally utter a sentence containing the word <span style="font-style: italic;">asshole</span>.<br /><br />This photograph is unremarkable (ómerkileg) -- of no particular quality -- but the multiple fingers of Lagavulin were <span style="font-style: italic;">excellent, excellent.<br /><br /></span>Oh, give thanks for óreyndir bartenders. I feel most tenderly tended to.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000011.post-64555683787145605032011-12-13T19:06:00.000+00:002011-12-13T19:14:21.264+00:00nætursýnRecent dreams:<br /><ul><li>The great whale, after museum hours, gets to swim languorously, carefully, about the exhibit hall. </li></ul><ul><li>Glass shards in my soles. I hate that. I would have thought my calluses would have protected me, horny like hooves. </li></ul>What do dreams like that say? Perhaps I am a Danish mermaid.<br /><br />Meanwhile, his furred ears flick about, his feet (free of glass) and his muzzle twitch, his flanks quiver. I can see the white of his upward-facing eye, but I cannot say what he sees.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1