Eira Stenberg
Little Criminals
To begin with they’re sweet:
From Parrakas Madonna, 1983. Translated by H. Lomas.
they grow tiny nails and teeth.
Who’d guess he’d turn
into a sabre-toothed tiger?
When he leanerd how to kiss,
out of sheer love
he gobbled up his nurse,
gnawed the bones clean
and was finally as full-up
as a filled-in grave.
- Little Criminals
- He was so thin-skinned
- In Santa Sophia at Ohrid
- Money doesn’t stink
- Tree Mother
- A Child Screams
- To talk of love
- Divina Commedia
- In the Male There’s a Cave
- The Princess Plays
- A Man Carries His Cross
- The Animals
- A Cotonou night
- The equator