Sorry to hear this. Strokes are never good, consequences, well, not
one would wish...glad to hear that he's better.
More strength to the two fingers of Arni the indefatigable!!!
Roger
On 12/24/05, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ...and bang on cue: Pétur sends on some news of Árni - plus some poems!
>
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> ------ Forwarded Message
> From: Pétur Knútsson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:40:28 -0000
> To: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Arni?
>
> Hallo Alison
> Season's greetings!
> At last some conastructive news of Árni: he's strong enough to sit at the
> computer for about 30 minutes a day, although his sight is pretty poor, and
> he proudly announces he uses 2 fingers.
> He's finished a short play which I've not seen yet, reversing the roles of
> Hamlet and Ophelia (or so he tells me), and a lovely cycle of place-name
> poems (following on from his cycle of personal-name poems before his stroke,
> full of word-play which I've not had the courage yet to address in
> translation) -Here are my translations of a couple of new poems. Perhaps for
> those who don't know I should make the comment that this is not at all the
> sight that I see out of his hospital window....
> Best regards,
> Pétur Knútsson
>
>
> CHANGELING
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>
>
> After the morning routine
>
> they hook my arms over their shoulders.
>
> I am to look at the view at last
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> out of the window which has shown me
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> only clouds and sky
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> for endless days and nights.
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> It's frozen marshland, withered sedge,
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> a boat straining at its moorings,
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> the sea brown with soil
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> that has blown down from the highlands,
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> shoal ice in a little bay.
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> I scan it all in
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> before I fall back into bed.
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> It's not what I was expecting.
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> I am a changeling.
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> I am somewhere else.
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>
> NOVEMBER 2nd
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>
> On November 2nd 2004 the younger Bush was re-elected
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> President of the United States of America
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>
>
> On November 2nd 2004 I had a cerebral haemorhage
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> which paralysed me completely
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>
>
> On November 2nd 2005 Bush has lost the support
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> of nearly half his electorate
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>
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> On November 2nd 2005 I'm managing to sit without support
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> and even stand
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>
>
> Comparison of this sort serve very little purpose
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> of course except perhaps as yet another reminder
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> to use time well
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