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Lessons from a Poet’s House
Kristján Einarsson lived here in Djupalæk.
It’s a bit more exposed than a North American or Continental poet’s house. Here’s the kind of poem you write in a place like this:
Strings
Stones are strings.
Kristján
The water makes them roar.
Its a delight to know
What lives in the mind of water…
Mind you, water is tight these days:
Lots in the Atlantic, but for fresh water for the sheep, it has to be brought in in plastic tanks. Even though it falls, almost daily, from the sky. Isn’t this the real poverty and isolation?
Icelandic Priorities
Those are the rules. The application is individual.
A Picnic in Iceland
The goal is not to find shelter.
For shelter, sit on the ground and use humps of heather to break the wind. The table is only to make you think of stopping and taking a break from the Ring Road. Do.
The Mountain Playground of Iceland
Hveragerði
No jungle gym required.
Have a Seat
Many do, but, really, there’s no need. The chair has its own life.
What an intriguingly-evolved human it is: so friendly, so proud, so redly communist, and so rickety, too.
Some Mountains Aren’t Nice (But Say Hello, Anyway)
Throwing stuff at you all the time, and everything.
Quite endearing, really. So, this exclusion is really attractive to humans. We can really identify with it. So what do we do? Build a road so we can dump two piles of gravel at the end of it, just to say hello.
Well, in mountain language, that is.
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Welcome to the East.
A South- Icelandic Forest: Homes for Dreams
Not for birds. No birds. Yet still all fully occupied.
Hveragerði
Everybody Try to Be Rhubarb Now!
Ah, the fun we have in Djúpivogur.
Icelandic Beauty Contest
In other countries, it’s flowers, or dogs, horses or pretty women, but in Iceland it’s bird eggs.
As usual, picking a winner is hard. That old painted harbour beacon on the hill has, as you can see, given up trying.
A Farm in Iceland 