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Poetry by Line Toftsø

Line Toftsø

credit: emb

*
The opposite of a rock
the daily life of your fingers
look how the birds are shining
hawthorn is piercing through clumps of hair
a woolen mitten smells of gasoline
ash is a warm grey
as early as an eye
it happens that I confuse slow with soft
both are so close to the skin.

*

Mornings are dark green
like whole seasons
I believe I gave you a vow in a dream
matter
mother
mare
birthmarks are not always the same
as scars
the skin is so raw

you

such a beautiful and toxic name.

*

Face recognition
reflections of a landscape
a tree is slowly cracking
it’s such a beautiful picture
it looks like a scrap
really
yesterday was melancholic
brittle and semiprecious stone-like
today I’m just mean and beautiful

and all the things you want to read in my face?
read it with your fingers.

*

I constantly fail you
I eat black hellebores for breakfast
to forget
and afterwards I stand vanta black
in a field     negative
greedy greedy crying eye
the gap the doubt an eyelid
lowering
this afternoon love was called a manic shield

wind has overthrown my face.

 

*

Damned obsidian
burnt brilliant by fever

Is it your eyes or your mouth
that’s burning?

Is this real?

No, darling. It’s red.

Line Toftsø

Lina Toftsø is a Danish published writer and artist. She lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. Find her at toftsoe.dk and on Twitter at @linetofts.

Author: Line Toftsø Tags: poetry Category: Poetry July 7, 2017

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Comments

  1. Fred LaMotte says

    July 13, 2017 at 12:46 pm

    I love these poems, as much for the flood of imagery that flows through the silence between the phrases, as for the phrases themselves – water between shards of broken ice. Thank you.

    Reply
  2. Sam Silva says

    July 7, 2017 at 9:44 am

    i like this alot though its difficult to follow for me….brilliantly enigmatic

    Reply

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