Author: Väinö Kirstinä
Poems
Issue 3/1985 | Archives online, Fiction, poetry
Introduction by Pertti Lassila
If you come to the land of winds, to the bottom of the sea,
there are few trees, plenty of icy wind
from shore to shore.
You can see far
and see nothing.
Around you screech the newborn plains
still wet from fog
but clear as a dream
at the edge, the sea
beneath, the deep earth
above, the wide expanse
shouts to you and to the plains
about being
it looks at you and asks
When we returned home
and leaned against the long table
we could see the simple grain of the wood
and our weariness turned into knowledge
of why we had had to go away:
to come back to see the uncharted patterns
in the table at home.