Jesper Svenbro Poems

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1.
The Starlings

Late one afternoon in October
I hear them for the first time:
loud-voiced palavering, whistles, murmurs,
quarrels, bickering and warbling, croaking and chatter
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2.
La Mer

Once in a while our table conversation might
concern the perception of the sea in Charles Trénet's "La Mer"
which was recorded in the mid-forties.
I myself had grown up by an entirely different sea
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