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Katrine Guldager: Earth

May 20, 2011 by PBQ

I don’t know what I came here for, only that everything else
was impossible, that the little No I’m now holding up in front
of me is just a sorry shield against an abundance of milky stars,
a slip of meaning: Only that my little cardboard sign is just a
hint of what is unused and shiny and drawn through this
morning completely untouched: I don’t know what I came
here for, only that a dream slowly moves into position and
starts dreaming itself without any other aim than to let itself be
repeated as a possibility: A dictionary that wants its pages torn
out, blind earth that wants steps to vibrate below:

—translations by Anna Mette Lundofte

Filed Under: Contributors 65, Fiction, Fiction 65, Issue 65 Tagged With: Contributors 65, Fiction, Fiction 65, Katrine Guldager

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