Tóroddur Poulsen
trans. by Matthew Landrum
Notes from the Gutter
this morning
i’m not afraid
of anyone
even the darkness
seems almost
homespun
like the faith
you walked
away from
Tóroddur Poulsen is a leading Faroese writer, musician, and artist. He has published over thirty books since his 1984 debut poetry collection, Dregs.
Matthew Landrum is the author of Berlin Poems (A Midsummer Night's Press) and translator of Katrin Ottarsdóttir's Are the Copper Pipes in Heaven (The Operating System). He lives in Detroit.