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Tone Hødnebø

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IT is autumn

IT is autumn
a plum is falling, apples,
the fruit falls
and the soul's engineer
is measuring the universe with a teaspoon
It snows in the snow, snows in the rain,
it snows in your back
Stars falling.

IT is autumn

DET er høst
og en plomme faller, epler,
frukten faller
og sjelens ingeniør
måler universet med teskje
Det snør i snøen, snør i regnet,
det snør i ryggen
Stjernene faller.

Tone Hødnebø

(Norway, 1962)

Tone Hødnebø was born in Oslo and grew up in Tønsberg, a coastal town south of Oslo. She studied in Bergen, where she still lived when her first poetry collection, Larm, was published in 1989. Since then she has published four collections of poetry, a small work on poetics, Skamfulle Pompeii (Shameful Pompeii, 2004, H Press), as well as a translation of Emily Dickinson’s poetry called Skitne li...

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IT is autumn

IT is autumn
a plum is falling, apples,
the fruit falls
and the soul's engineer
is measuring the universe with a teaspoon
It snows in the snow, snows in the rain,
it snows in your back
Stars falling.

IT is autumn

IT is autumn
a plum is falling, apples,
the fruit falls
and the soul's engineer
is measuring the universe with a teaspoon
It snows in the snow, snows in the rain,
it snows in your back
Stars falling.