one summer day
the harbour was full of ships
grey ships

one summer day
soldiers drove through the village in open trucks
throwing chewing gum to us

one summer day
the lighthousekeeper sat down drunk to dinner
swallowed a piece too big and choked to death

and meanwhile
a pallid yellow youthful dream
grew a head of seeds and blew away

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Arni Ibsen (1948). A Different Silence: Selected Poems. Translated by Arni Ibsen and Petur Knutsson. Routledge; Har/Com edition. 2000.