Pentti Holappa
Insomnia
I can bear the grey days all right. The sky´s
From Älä pelkää, 1997. Transl. Herbert Lomas.
lowering — that I know from old; and, yes,
the trek to those I love stretches as far as Oceania,
the starlit domes, the rainbow´s end, or youth;
but, like stripping a coat from one dying of cold,
or depriving a drowning man of a life-raft,
the insomniacs have been robbed
of the magic key to the gloomy castle
whose turrets let you see the whole globe,
though it´s dark and our planet´s swimming
in cries of pain. A long, long time ago
a cool hand fell on my brow. Someone said: `Sleep!´
There was someone.
- Insomnia
- Don’t be afraid
- Key
- Crow
- Bulldog
- Shopping expedition
- An angel’s hand
- 25 October
- The long train
- The sick and the healer
- Absence
- Either/Or
- Torch
- The boarding house dog
- The train to despair
- The poet François Villon…