Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

Baltimore.
They came here, the black population, from the south to get work
In factories and the rate of pay for them the poor from the south,
Was good and a neighbourhood evolved, there was progress and
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Ruins

Ancient ruins of Smyrna are threatened by war
they might be blown up by those who want history
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Animals and Madness
A floppy-eared rabbit is
a cuddly lover
it will not let you down.
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Ex. Seafarer
As a former seafarer, I have been to most countries that
have a harbour, but I have not been to Nepal or Tibet and
I have never wished to meet the great Lama a man wearing
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The Feast
The vines are deep green no budding grapes yet,
that will start life as small verdant glass pearls
slowing turning dark red and sweet as generation
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Dangerous Encounter
It was a June Saturday after dinner I walked along the docks
and noticed a man I knew putting crates of beer on his boat that
had an outboard motor. He lived on the other side of the bay and
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Love that once Was

When I met her she was spring flower and pretty
as the zephyr undulating gently through a field of
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Mermaid Fascination

Put a seashell to your ear and hear
the storm that blew and the call from
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Film Set?
There were many bathers on the beach when a rusty
U-boat surfaced, a hatch opened a man came on deck
he was the captain and wore a German uniform,
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The Remote
it was a terrible hallucination
an old hex came up of her grave
and raped me.
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