From “Aase’s Death” [“Backlit Horses”]

Translated from the Swedish

Backlit horses
Tropical nights
Pink dusk over the woods

Widestretching fields
Far away quails yell
into the air
A mechanical toy rattles
across the courtyard

The wind’s feet
touch the field

as when a spaceship
is just about to land

Notes:

Read the translator's note by Johannes Göransson.

Source: Poetry (September 2025)