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JUHANI AHVENJÄRVI CLAES ANDERSSON EVA-STINA BYGGMÄSTAR TOMAS MIKAEL BÄCK AGNETA ENCKELL MARTIN ENCKELL TUA FORSSTRÖM PENTTI HOLAPPA JOUNI INKALA RIINA KATAJAVUORI JYRKI KIISKINEN TOMI KONTIO JUKKA KOSKELAINEN LEEVI LEHTO HEIDI LIEHU RAKEL LIEHU LAURI OTONKOSKI MARKKU PAASONEN ANNUKKA PEURA MIRKKA REKOLA HENRIKA RINGBOM PENTTI SAARITSA HELENA SINERVO EIRA STENBERG ANNI SUMARI ILPO TIIHONEN SIRKKA TURKKA MERJA VIROLAINEN KJELL WESTÖ (ANDERS HED) |
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SIRKKA TURKKA (b. 1939) has written 14 books, both poetry and prose. She was awarded Finlandia Prize in 1987, Yleisradio’s (the equivalent of the BBC) Tanssiva Karhu (Dancing Bear) prize in 1994 and Eino Leino Prize in 2000. She has also worked as animal attendant and head stableman.
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THE HOLINESS OF HUMILITY |
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They are all there, safe, in order: the dog sleeping behind checkered curtains, the dandelion's first leaf, maskrosblad the arbor and the serenades, the vase of lilacs, and the headache, the sprouting acorn that never got past sprouting, trees - generally - and in season: leaves floating in the air.
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 Blessed are the spiritually poor
I don't want to see Ignatio's blood
The horse is yawning, his eyes...
I'm standing on the roof, it's...
Wish for anything you want, anyt...
In winter a wolf ran cross
I found a rabbit´s paw in the yard
Alone, perplexed, an autumn flow...
The dog sleeps behind checkered...
They are all there
We drive the great night and thu...
And in the sky a dark cloud like...
I've grown thinner
The theory of relativity is a...
Autumn, the old horseman pissing
And the world stood on one leg...
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