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Finnish
Autumn 
Leaves flee their trees. Gold coins strewn across woodland paths turn black, rain-smashed to dross. Silver birches’ ciliate tips outside my window incised against the sky like intaglio. Bohemian waxwings rise in flocks, take flight – maple leaves mottled by black-spotted blight. Bone-white horizon, a full setting moon; bone-white the sun rising into the brume. I am worried, curious: the coming chill – mythic, drear – augury of a world... gone still. Here, in Finland, we ululate the weather: alavilla mailla hallan vaaraa ('in the lowlands, there is the danger of night-frost') 
 I love this Finnish language, unlike any other: affricative Ts, uvular Ks, sibilants and trills, all letters equal, first syllable takes the downbeat: Kalevala Kotka Esa-Pekka Salonen |
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| Poems © 2005
Norbert Hirschhorn. Original photographs © 2005
Cynthia Myntti. Page, picture and graphics realisation © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Sally Crawford. All rights reserved. |
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