Jan Oskar Hansen Biography

A Cigarette


Dawn, yes and the mist, what else do you
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….And Sweet was My Love

I had met her in the town where I went to school,
about an hour train ride from my town. She was
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A Cairo Rose

Lily white was his shirt
A red rose sprung from his chest,
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…And It Was Her Summer


“Go back to the children’s home, she said I have no work and
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There had been much rain in the upland and the river ran
full and strong, so forceful that a pillar, on the old bridge,
broke off and half of it fell down.
Misty night when a bus crossed the bridge, plunged down
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