Fem Kronor

In 2013, two years after leaving Karlskrona (where I undertook postdoctoral research on electronic literature), I compiled a chapbook, Fem Kronor, featuring 10 poems written in (or about) the town. Here they are.

Djungel

This sound, that stinks of dirty sneakers (never boots, they’re meant for da smeris speaks of djungel, uprooted flowerpots (never flares, maybe strobelight analysis strewn across the asfalt like the remains (not the actual remains, mind, but echoes of tribal…

Mentasm

if i may so bold as to ask what it is, oh professor … indeed you may (listen and learn young padawan here’s a formula to make a mentasm from scratch 1st, take a sawtooth, or even better: a lot…

Trending

pls re-tweet & follow this if you can: CSI Fallujah trending, mission accomplished & war on terror continues unabated on the day obama died i was buying candles in abbottabad inadvertantly i liveblogged the whole damn cash transaction check your…

København Trilogy

I “Morten, who was not so good to English, wore oversized glasses that made his face look crooked, as if he had been punched, on a train, by some thug from Århus. We corresponded only very briefly, when we were…

Baby monkey

The latest song of the week from Parry Gripp is a cheerful tribute to that baby monkey riding the mini pig … Our facility is USDA and FWC licensed and has over 20 years of experience. We are a wonderful…