Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

ducks
It was an early Sunday morning in June
A man I a rowing boat stealing ducks in the lake,
who thought he was there to feed them,
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A River
It is a river in the middle of the landscape
not a famous river it has no university buildings
and it doesn`t appear in ancient books.
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Appointment

I have unfolded my poetic wings
they have no feathers and the downdrafts
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Gaza women

Mothers
Of Palestine
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The Vengeance
In the house were we lived had five families
a toilet for everyone in the basement where also rats lived.
The man in the flat under ours (one room)drank a lot and when
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FridayRain.

The café facing the busy street has big windows
I see umbrellas walking by, some of them stop,
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Doctor or Dentist

An enormous raindrop fell under an umbrella and nearly
drowned the occupant under it. A dentist came opened her mouth
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The seagull that loved me

The seagull which lives beside the chimney
knew me since I fed it from the deck of a ship,
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Midnight Party

On a ride on booze swim in a lake of dreams
It is so easy to drown when a wine is sweet, and the moon is full.
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The undead?
One day, a high summer season, I drove my bike
along with a narrow track, the led me deep into
a landscape that once had been domesticated
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