missing

Weymouth beach, 0630, 30 July 2020

On the Djurgården ferry

Interplanetary!

Set the controls for Sirius! 

But first a farewell trip

on the Djurgården ferry,

nibbling its way forward

through the spring ice.

Short journey, low bow-swell,

hardly worth mentioning.

But much will be missing

in the silence of silence.

(Werner Aspenström, translated by me)

Djurgården is Stockholm's leisure island, site of Skansen people's park, the Vasa ship, the Gröna Lund funfair. A short ferry ride from the centre. 

Ode to a helicopter

Malformed laughter

hanging beneath the clouds,

celestial coffee-grinder,

I love you!

Frog of the air, you sing

more sweetly than the nightingale!

Who among us is not

a player of deformity?

Let us investigate the world,

brother Peeping Tom!

I call that a triumph of technology

and a friend in need.

(Werner Aspenström, translated by me)

Weymouth beach, 0630, 30 July 2020