2023-06-05
Week 23: Synnøve Persen "I Am Swimming"
Enjoy a weekly poem by authors from Norway, throughout the year.
I AM SWIMMING
I am swimming
in
the morning sky
greeting
the clouds
Translated by Gerd Bjørhovde in In The Shadow of the Midnight Sun, Contemporary Sami Prose and Poetry, edited and introduced by Harald Gaski, Davvij Girji o.s., Karashohka, 1996, p. 150.
See the poem in Sámi and Norwegian
Poem of the Week
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