The following translations were first published in March 2024 in the online chapbook The Life of a Tenement House. They are reproduced with permission from Half Day Moon Press.
The Man Who Never Ate Tomatoes
The man who never ate tomatoes
looked like a postman or a used
car seller.
He died the day before yesterday
at the age of 84.
His favourite conductor was James Conlon.
During a storm he always wore a warm
scarf.
He had a wife, of medium height and build.
Throughout her life she worked
at a toy shop.
Their only daughter, Lise, works at a bowling alley
on the outskirts of Copenhagen.