Reykjavík Grapevine - 07.04.2017, Side 60

L I F E , T R AV E L & E N T E R TA I N M E N T I N I C E L A N D
Issue 05 × 2017
April 7 – April 20
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To Write You A
Poem. No, Really...
Words: Nanna Dís Árnadóttir
Hey Nanna,
I’ve read that there’s a deep cultural histo-
ry in Iceland for writing poems. Would you
write me a poem about Iceland?
Poet Laureate
OK Poet Laureate,
I don’t know what you’ve heard but only cool
young women and grumpy old fusspots com-
pose poems in Iceland. I am neither. But I’ll
write you a poem because whatever it’s my job
to answer these letters.
She visits me but once a year
Bathes me in gold and melts my defences
Each winter I brood and quiver with fear
That this is the summer that she’ll forget
that I’m here
But brief though her appearance may be,
She spends each summer’s moment with me,
Coaxes the blossoms that bloom from
my moss
Dances on water, thaws my frost
When the earth turns its face and pulls
her away
I call out to her and beg her to stay
But she has no more power than me
We are all victims of gravity
Well, that’s it. I hate myself now. Are you happy?
Nanna.
Hi Nanna,
I want one of you wisdom pills! I and
friends would like to be in reykjavik for
christmas, have you got suggestions? what
could we do? thanx a lot!
N
Hi N,
Buy each other books. Then stay inside your
hotel rooms and read the books while work-
ing your way through a tin of Quality Street
or a box of Nói Síríus chocolates. It’s what all
the other Icelanders are doing at Christmas.
Anything to get out of making conversation
or having to eat while looking one another in
the eye.
Best, Nanna
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peril. Shoot her an email on nanna.arnadottir(at)gmail.com or tweet her
using @NannaArnadottir
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