Kategori: Peter
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Ekphrasis on Oil Painting
Those who smiles are to the fore at sales booths with apples and oranges The market is selling home grown everlasting flowers crisp-bread and jam jars Of course the sun shines Of course the clouds are dubbed there Of course people are red and yellow and blue A summer without mosquitoes But below the city…
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Apple pie
Part of the image is dissolved by the sun but close to her eyes the smile the red hair tousled or hovering Cheek is pressed against a white shirtfront not dad´s The smile The eyes are so blue cheeks apple-shaped and shoulders thin neck exposed and make up makes her distinct but in the wrong…
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Sponge cake
Sunday and she bakes a sponge cake He has not been home for several hours I put my hands on the kitchen table The apron wraps around her calves while the room is filled with sweetness Mom helped me with the measurements, she says On the table her mother’s head is tilted against another man’s…
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Tracks
At the railway crossing I see a boy on the rails Heat waves shimmer He picks up a handful of gravel and lets it fall down The movement in his hands Further away a girl is on the crossties Her brown hair tight over the scalp A German Shepherd grunts and whimpers pounds his head…
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Murmurs
Beach sounds The baskets, bath towels, sun loungers The soporific noise and a heavy sun He plays with his camera zooms the boys play on the pontoon bridge On the waterfront she screw up her eyes She blinks, looking in the backlight but nowhere Three boys throw themselves into the water breaking the surface screaming…
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Dinner for two couples
It is cleaned for the first time in weeks not a speck of dust even in the corners Even the curtains are new Jacket and shirt unbuttoned at the top We talk about the harmless things the happy things After a few glasses of wine about the seemingly intimate things suicide attempts and dreams Considerations…
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The Tempest
After such an event one will be changed you said and I agreed Then we bought snacks and watched Shakespeare’s The Tempest but turned off in the middle to see how many people who had died In the heat corpses deployed in rows Human lamenting was captured skillfully by the photographers An old woman broke…
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Dante
I’m talking a long time about Dante tells them of hell, purgatory, heaven about his moral map When I ask the students to categorize contemporary morality in a nine-step deep hell funnel and like gods inflict punishment for the culprits they illuminate and grab their pens But one student completely still does not want to…
Peter Nyberg Mollung 