My jug full of blue water

and suns.

I knew I would burn

that’s why I didn’t partake of it.

Not until the moon

dug itself under the fjord

and the snow.

Then I warmed myself up.

With blue water and suns.

     *

Had been alone longer than I suspected

and dusted off the tablecloth.

No tracks in the snow,

the road gone off with a ship.

The tablecloth orange coloured sometimes.

And the gate fixed to the sky.

Had been alone longer than I suspected

tending to my tasks.

My jug full of blue water

awaited me at the table.

And as I swept the floors I looked over there.

At the suns floating down and up.

I swept and cocked my eyes.

At my jug that was full of

blue water and suns.

The water in the tap awaited me no longer.

     *

You know I won’t abandon you.

Though you’ll come no closer I won’t abandon you.

     *

Silence inside, silence outside.

In hard snow and broken sky.

When the moon ploughs.

Into the snow that had settled

longer ago than I suspected.