by kendrive
@ 2006-09-29 - 07:53:47
Annabelle Despard is a bilingual poet who writes in Norwegian and makes her own translations into English.
The Tube poster marked the first publication of the English text of this poem.
SHOULD YOU DIE FIRST
Should You Die First
Let me at least collect your smells
as specimens: your armpits, woollen sweater,
fingers yellow from smoke. I'd need
to take an imprint of your foot
and make recordings of your laugh.
These archives I shall carry into exile;
my body a St Helena where ships no longer dock,
a rock in the ocean, an outpost where the wind howls
and polar bears beat down the door.
Annabelle Despard
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