2017-4

for the Lent

                         cold Fastelavn*

renounce the I

                         the rain

                         comes dressed

in poetry?

                         as sleet

til fasten

                        kold Fastelavn

giv afkald

på jeg'et

                        regnen kommer

                        udklædt

i poesien?

                        som slud

*Fastelavn - the Danish name for the carnival preceding Lent - comes from the Low German Fasteloven or Fastnacht, the evening before the fast