2023-05-15

Poem of the Week, week 20: Niko Valkeapää: "I have given my heart"

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I HAVE GIVEN MY HEART

I have given my heart
into your keeping
So that wherever I go
I feel something
is missing
in my breast

Niko Valkeapää

From: Lása duohken, Behind the Window, Bárus, 2017, p. 67.

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