RAIN
setting out knife bowl vase
it’s stormy today we’re out of doors
I saw him the other day in the glass
traces of me in his traits and vice versa
we didn’t recognize each other
here knife of rain
here bowl of rain
here vase of rain
the rain is not a question of power
opening mouth and eyes
it’s overflowing eye of rain
how unrecognizable
Judith Kiros (b. 1989) is a Swedish poet, translator, and critic. Her 2019 debut
O was shortlisted for Swedish Radio’s Poetry Prize, Katapultpriset, and Borås Tidning’s Prize for Debut Authors. Kira Josefsson's translation of the book is currently a finalist for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize. Kiros is the 2023 winner of the Mare Kandre Prize and Svenska Dagbladets Literature Prize. Kiros is a PhD candidate in English literature at Karlstad University and lives in Stockholm.
Kira Josefsson is a writer, editor, and translator working between Swedish and English. Her translations have been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, the Bernard Shaw Prize, and the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize. She lives in Queens, New York, and writes on US events and politics in the Swedish press.
