FINNISH DESIGN

EVERYTHING, AS IT IS 

 

The sky cloudy, grey, it’s warm,

almost stifling. We walk

along the gravel road, the country road

 

The pines, their shoots

 The warm dampness in the greenhouse. We drink

coffee, black coffee, buy scevola,

two garlic plants, a tomato plant, celery

 

Back along the road

 The sky’s globe, clouds in layers. I long to be

nowhere else but here.

 

 

HENRIKA RINGBOM (b. 1962) is a Finland-Swedish poet, who also writes prose and essays. She has published four collections of poems, the latest of which Den vita vinthunden (The White Greyhound, 2001), and a novel.