Norwegian, He’d Have Said

He dreamed that he was

bow-leggèd and dead:

sentenced to be saddled

to an addled yellow quadruped.

The questions that this begged

of course were legion.

The light was unambiguously

Nordic, though: Norwegian,

he’d have said, which might have

borne the tendrils of a meaning:

before his mother died she

had a vision of fjords: leaning

on the railing of a boat,

and looking out. That this flouted

in some manner his bow-

leggèdness he never doubted.

Dreams and all

their themes.

Funny little

schemes.

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