Mirkka Rekola
Mirkka Rekola
Mirkka Elina Rekola was a Finnish writer from Tampere who published poems, aphorisms, essays. Her poetry was considered ‘difficult’, thus she gained wide audience as late as in the 1990s. Rekola's production has not really been the subject of research until after the mid-1990s. Liisa Enwald's 1997 dissertation Kaiken liikkeessä lepo contributed to pioneering research. In 2020, the Runopuu mural, p
"FOG: Fog covers this region. / Can you still hear my voice? / I dont understand trees. / They try to grab our hair. / A branch has fallen on you. I know that. / Could you look behind me: / is there a load / on my back, as well?"
"The sea raises you to your feet. And dead calm. Strands of light hold your hand. Now you have left this shore. Now you are in the wind of an invisible sail."
"IN THE SUN: Sickle moon still there in daylight. // We long for things as they were. / We want them back, / our blue-black nights, and the stars."
"Two there on the beach / as close together as nostrils. / Calm sea day."
"Up down / on summers lake / the flying ant / finds a wall in the air"
"The nights are no longer warm,"
"THE DESCENT: Faster I travel into the cold of the mountain / than I return from it. / One cant see the sun. / Wait, I come closer / as beside me the frozen snow / dwindles."
"One a child, one old / almost half a century apart // both / need my hand in this city"
"Without moving anything / I want to see / the way this autumn / makes the birds move."
"When I hate so much / that my eyes no longer close, / when I love so much / that I move, eyes open / close, far, without effort / not naming the country, the winds evil"
"They speak their loud dialects, / Sicilians, Sardinians, / Calabrians, / they all have their own taverns. / At the other end of the alley, / on the other side / a quiet spot, / waiters and patrons at tables, / their faces, hairdos / out of Pompeiis frescoes. / Large eyes look at us, / the door does not open out, / it opens in."
"I lower the bill of my cap stop looking / thoughts ready to go / sit in this train thats as long as the journey"
