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Reykjav​í​k

from Reykjav​í​k Suite by The Araby Bazaar

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when I was sixteen, I was sweet on this fairly feckless ingénue
she wasn’t really all that taken with the efforts I’d go to
a situation that repeated - more times than I’d care to admit
but in between them, I developed other feelings (at a distance) for Reykjavík

this came about as I was I writing about the Church of Hallgrímur
a History of Art assignment researching strange architecture
and it seemed to me absurdly novel that people settled out so far
in freezing darkness, a sub-arctic city of European outcasts

the plane doors open to sulphuric confrontation on the tongue
the landscape’s different shades of burning; black, umber, ochre, grey and rust
there is one ring-road round the island; nobody can survive the centre
‘should this exist at all,’ I wonder; knowing then it was meant for me

today, I walked down to the lighthouse at Grótta in Seltjarnarnes
it started getting dark at midday; the grass was beautiful and dead
the path was flanked with rocks and steep banks down into icy waters black
the Esja fills the whole horizon; a razor wind is at your back

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from Reykjav​í​k Suite, released November 27, 2022

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