English excerpts from LAUGARDAGSMORGUNN (Saturday Morning):

A slice of salami ripped from a pack,
A buzzing fly on a window sill,
Quick steps clattering down the stairs,
The swish of bookshelves being dusted.

A celebrity snipped from a magazine,
Cuddling whispers to the croon of a record,
The whirr of an electric razor in the bath,
The gush of a bucket in the laundry.

In the garden, breathless sunshine and twittering birds,
A thick rug whacked on a balcony,
A phone stops ringing on the floor above,
A jeep blares its horn on the corner.

Alley-cats purr in the shadows
To the clackety-clack of my typewriter.