EPIGRAM
You can spend an entire life
in the company of words
not ever finding
the right one.

Just like a wretched fish
wrapped in Hungarian newspapers.
For one thing it is dead,
for another it doesn't understand
Hungarian.

                     Hiels Hav
                     Copenhagen, Denmark

Such a cold February morning
All birds are waiting in the trees:
Will it ever be spring?

Will the sun ever come back again?
Even the birds protect a secret longing
In the same way as we.

                     Hiels Hav
                     Copenhagen, Denmark

 

The Hawthorn
The fir trees are with us
summer and winter,
always intimate friends.

The hawthorn is blooming hysterical
one week in May — that's the one
we love.

                     Hiels Hav
                     Copenhagen, Denmark

In the Same Way
In the same way
you're unable to love
each photo shows
your face reduced
to cold fear   
                                 
                      Hiels Hav
                     Copenhagen, Denmark

Deepest Inside All
Deepest inside all
that happens is a silence.
As at night when I arise —
the fridge whispering
in the kitchen.

I take out milk - drink
and suddenly remember
Who I am.   

                      Hiels Hav
                     Copenhagen, Denmark