Mirkka Rekola Quotes
1931–2014 Finland
Mirkka Elina Rekola (26 June 1931 – 5 February 2014) was a Finnish writer from Tampere who published poems, aphorisms, essays.
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Without moving anything
I want to see
the way this autumn
makes the birds move.
Stood there who knows how long looked
at the clouds the hedge
when someone came out of the door it was her daughter.
One a child, one old
almost half a century apart // both
need my hand in this city
The sea raises you to your feet. And dead calm.
Strands of light hold your hand. Now you have left
this shore. Now you are in the wind of an invisible sail.
Down the ages
they conduct their long monologue:
can'y you hear?
They hope for it from others,
wait for ones like themselves,
they were born that way.
And so has the world been arranged
that those others grow weary
and begin to take care of the chores.
I lower the bill of my cap stop looking
thoughts ready to go
sit in this train that's as long as the journey
Two there on the beach
as close together as nostrils.
Calm sea day.
Hunkered down out on the spacious ice
coat-hems touching the snow
she slaps her knees, tries to sweet-talk her dog
but it won't come, does not remember its name,
left it there,
she does not remember her own, either,
and here on the shore I keep shouting, in vain.
When you grow to become visible in the world
and build a nest
above your head
there are times when you fly up there
and it is light and swims in the air
Up down
on summer's lake
the flying ant
finds a wall in the air