An Algarvian (Portugal) Landscape
This strange anthill landscape criss-crossed
by ancient tracks like varicose veins
on an
old person's legs & dry rivers blow
red
dust and the summer heat crackles under
an off milky sky & tiny villages
where only
the aged live, fewer every year, soon
there
will be none. Bushes will grow through
living rooms and walls will fall in
winter
rain & nothing left all traces of
humanity
gone and no one will remember that once
upon a time you and I lived here.
- Jan Oskar Hansen
to Jan / to
Moongate
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