Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

The Suit

After the surgery my son come visiting
he had brought a dark suit along, hung
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Knife Man
I see most days the thin man who always carries a document map
that appears as slim as him. He has a distant look in his face like he
lives in a world of his own, and we pass each other like shadows in
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Spaceship 1

Wonderful night stars so close took a step ladder up to
the roof terrace and picked one it shone so bright, put
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Working class Soldier.

Don’t blame the TV it is what you want, so smile to the camera;
whatever you do don’t show a picture of a mutilated alien soldier,
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Haiti

A heap of bodies a humid, tree less killing field?
Raw unrestricted pictures, it is like being awake
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Greetings

The lone star beer was ice cold, turned my teeth into
glaziers. My mind froze as polar bears hunted seals
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How mild the fall is?


I followed a track between tall, pale green cactuses, in this harsh landscape
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Dance Nocturne

August night is an abyss hotter than the day
and the wind that blows was born in hell.
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Death of a Princess

Transparent, on top of a knoll
she stood the most famous woman
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Ice Roses
Frost on windows? Not where I live now, but where
I grew up, winter windows had thick layers of ice.
And in mornings, before anyone got out of bed, I
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