Poems in Norwegian by:

no I tell the child ()
I shall tell you the fairy tale ()
I give you tears that sprout ()
you receive a letter ()
the child: ()
gas to the lamp ()
I shall eat you alive ()
the gaze is full of stamps ()
from CIRCLE PSALM: SUN (sol)
from CIRCLE PSALM: CLOUD (sky)
from CIRCLE PSALM: SEA (hav)
THE SOLDIERS’ MARKET [excerpt] ()

THIS IS WHERE WE ARE BORN (#1) (DET ER HER VI ER FØDT (#1))
THIS IS WHERE WE ARE BORN (#3) (DET ER HER VI ER FØDT (#3))
THIS IS WHERE WE ARE BORN (MEXICANA) (DET ER HER VI ER FØDT (MEXICANA) )
THIS IS WHERE WE ARE BORN (#5) (DET ER HER VI ER FØDT (#5))

A SHEET OF PAPER LIT UP BY MEMORY (ET ARK OPPLYST AV ERINDRING)
LUKAS 9 (LUKAS 9)
FIVE ALLEGORICAL SKETCHES (FEM ALLEGORISKE SKISSER)
THE WORKING CLASS ARRIVES IN PARADISE (ARBEIDERKLASSEN KOMMER TIL PARADIS)
JULIEN GRACQ (JULY 27, 1910–DECEMBER 22, 2007) (JULIEN GRACQ (27. JULI 1910–22. DESEMBER 2007))
THE LONELY CLOUDS BLOW ACROSS THE SKY (SÅ ÖDSLIGT MOLNEN PÅ FÄSTET GÅ)
ST. NOBODY (ST. INGEN)
I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE BEFORE (JEG HAR ALLTID VÆRT HER FØR)
LONELINESS MISTAKEN FOR A CLEAR DAY (ENSOMHET FORVEKSLET MED EN KLAR DAG)
MORTON FELDMAN (12 JANUARY 1926–3 SEPTEMBER 1987) (MORTON FELDMAN (12. JANUARY 1926–3. SEPTEMBER 1987))

It isn’t always ()
More and more often ()
Linnea lies ill beneath the tree ()
The river has no comfort to offer ()
WHO IS TUMBLING SIDEWAYS ACROSS THE TABLE? (HVEM ER DET SOM VELTER SIDELENGS OVER BORDET?)
WHO IS WHISPERING IN THE BUSHES? IS IT YOU? (HVEM ER DET SOM HVISKER I BUSKENE ER DET DU?)
WHO IS WAITING FOR YOU (HVEM ER DET SOM VENTER PÅ DEG UANSETT HVA DU HAR GJORT UANSETT HVA DU HAR SAGT MYKERE ENN DU HADDE TENKT BEDRE ENN DU KUNNE HUSKE?)
LET’S SAY YOU STUFF YOUR MOTHER INTO A SUITCASE WHAT DO YOU GET THEN? (SI AT DU STAPPER MOREN DIN OPP I EN KOFFERT HVA FÅR DU DA?)
MAMA, MAMA! MY BACK SHALL I CALL YOU. MY LARGE, BROAD BACK SHALL I CALL YOU. (MAMMA, MAMMA! RYGG SKAL JEG KALLE DEG. STORE BREDE RYGG SKAL JEG KALLE DEG)

LIKE A BOAT IN THE FINE WIND (SOM EIN BÅT I DEN FINE VINDEN)
ONLY KNOW (BERRE VEIT)
THE MOUNTAIN HOLDS ITS BREATH (FJELLET HELD ANDEN)
SOMETHING ABOUT THE ACTOR (NOKO OM SKODESPELAREN)
A HUMAN BEING IS HERE (Eit menneske er her)

HORSE, SKYWARDS,/ LEAPS OUT OF ITSELF LIKE A WORLDLESS/ FACT (HEST, HIMMELVENDT,/ STYRTER UT AV SEG SELV SOM EN VERDENSLØS/ KJENSGJERNING)
A wanderer wanders here ()
but it’s not at all certain ()
She who stands over there ()
Harder, drier, straight-drawn diagonally ()
possibly a heroine or a sexed victim ()
tawny the curls ()
She can quite simply just go ()
with diagonal stripes across her breasts ()
Not a wheel of fortune left ()

THE SKY is a generator ()
NOT the whispering branch ()
IT is autumn ()
COLUMNS, stairs, a dozen ()
WHO does not grow older ()
SEE YOU soon, you said, see you soon ()
LIKE ARCHEANASSA in Sappho’s poem ()
THE NEW SYSTEM ()
PEOPLE don’t change ()
THE WORDS on the paper ()

The image of the white bear is back ()
There are species ()
Now you see me, now you don’t (Now you see me, now you don’t)
Yes, we do sleepwalk ()
Lacan’s emptiness ()
Longing is silence ()
At the building site a bulldozer ()
The daybright shadow (Den dagklåre skuggen)
Emptiness ()
The birch does not develop ()
The ancient Greeks believed a stone fell to the ground ()
Close to the blindness, your eye ()
Where shall we go the day to see ()
But when you reach what touches you ()

INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE COINCIDENCE (INSTRUKSER FRA TILFELDIGHETEN)
LOVE (KJÆRLIGHET)
THE MORNING WOMAN (MORGENKVINNEN)
HER PHOTO IN POLITIKEN (BILDET I POLITIKEN)
NEW RITUALS (NYE RITUALER)
THE INFECTION CARRIERESS (SMITTEBÆRERSKEN)
ENTANGLED (SAMMENFILTRET)
THE ENGRAVER (SKRIFTSTØPERSKEN)
MADAME CURIE (MADAME CURIE)
RYE (RUG)

POISONING 1 (1. FORGIFTNING)
POISONING 2 (2. FORGIFTNING)
POISONING 13 (13. FORGIFTNING)
POISONING 15 (15. FORGIFTNING)
POISONING 16 (16. FORGIFTNING)

DRUNKARDS AND CRAZY FOLK (DRANKARAR OG GALNINGAR)
ALL THIS (ALT DETTE)
GLORIA (excerpt) (GLORIA)
AT HOME (HEIME)

I told them I had hoped ()
THE WATER HOUSE (Vannhuset)
GRAVEYARD (Gravlund)
New trees are born to be yellow ()
TWO AMONG THE TREES (To mellom trærne)
I have given my body to the ignorant and the enlightened ()
My dream of belief has no end ()
Those who sanctify love, forsake love ()
GUERNICA 1937 – BAGHDAD 2003 (Guernica 1937 – Bagdad 2003)
THE DOGS OF KHAO LAK (Hundene i Khao Lak)

BRING THE WHOLE LANDSCAPE HERE (TA HIT HELE LANDSKAPET)
RAIN AND SUN (REGN MED SOL)
DEATH AND THE MAIDEN / DEATH AND THE BOY (DØDEN OG PIKEN )
EXPERIENCE AND DISAPPEARING (ERFARING OG FORSVINNING )
THANKS FOR THE PLATE (TAKK FOR FATET)
COME MAN WITH TWO SHIRTS (KOM MANN MED TO SKJORTER)
ELEGY (ELEGI)
WATERLILY (NØKKEROSE )

THE TREASURE CHAMBER IN BRAGA (SKATTKAMMERET I BRAGA)
CAMOUFLAGE (KAMUFLASJE)
ROSE I (ROSE I)
ROSE II (ROSE II)
ARCTIC STARFLOWER (SKOGSTJERNE)
LILAC (SYRIN)
SOLARIS CORRECTED (extract) (SOLARIS KORRIGERT)

01. A long time ago and quite soon ()
02. For all words are like you: ()
03. I hold the face against my eye ()
05. I take you let you ()
06. The rhythm of the morning heart ()
07. Something lets you know ()
08. I wait here ()
04. Holding hands ()
09. Suspend the letters one by one ()
10. Already existing ()
11. Carry the bed into the day ()

A NEW MEETING (ET NYTT MØTE)
THE FACT THAT NO BIRDS SING (AT FUGLENE IKKE SYNGER)
ELK (ELG)
KOAN FOR A CULTURAL BUREAUCRAT (KOAN FOR EN KULTURBYRÅKRAT)
THE BIRD FROM KAPINGAMARANGI (FUGLEN FRA KAPINGAMARANGI)
WIGWAM (WIGWAM)
IN MEMORY OF RADKA TONEFF (IN MEMORY OF RADKA TONEFF)
THE TREE AND THE NON-TREE (TREET OG IKKE-TREET)
A BOTTLE-BORN LETTER FOR ROBBEN ISLAND (FLASKEPOST TIL ROBBEN ISLAND)
MIRROR DOESN’T KNOW. OCEAN KNOWS (SPEILET VET IKKE. HAVET VET)