The Windows of Brimnes by Bill Holm

Author:Bill Holm
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2010-08-16T04:00:00+00:00

In this room a mausoleum

of emigrant faces, embalmed

in brown tone for over a century.

Try pronouncing their names:

Sumarliði, Hrafnhildur, Sturlaugur, Járnþrúður.

The grandchildren give up,

mumble a few consonants.

These faces, once flesh, sweat

in their itchy suits and whalebone corsets,

No weather like this damp heat

before they boarded their boats west.

Now all flesh gone, names too.

Nothing left but brown images,

lit by silent flashes,

the squeezed bulb in the photographer’s hand.

Such mustaches! Such intense pale eyes!

Such piles of Norse hair!

Indriði, Árngrímur, Aðalbjörg, Ragnheiður.

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