Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

Domestic Animals

Cows in the barn was glad to see me at six in the morning
They mooed and waited for me to milk them.
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Ecuador

I met a girl in Guayaquil it was night
We swam in the Pacific, the strand
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Record Breakers.
He is 100 and five spends his time in bed his family
come up to his room and clean him up, he is windy
and it smells like a Chinese egg buried underground
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Tanka
I had so many dreams
They laughed the ones who had lost theirs
Told me I was a fool
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It was a silent night if not holy, it was overcast
the electric gone, no streetlamps or moon.
A knock on my door a bundle of night asked to come
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The Missing Limb
I was driving a long when I saw half an arm, from
elbow and down to hand, on the verge of the road.
I stopped picked it up with my right hand and it
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I often read poetry on the internet because
from time to time, someone utterly unknown
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-Moonlight on the sea-
“Come and hang up the curtains”
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War by Proxy

France has a foreign legion
often deployed to the dirty work in Africa
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Haiku

Icy is the fjord
The fluidity of blue crystals
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