Actually it was only four short winters.
With Thomas Mann and Hesse
and Greek grammar.
And the Skandia movie theatre.
Tings like that pass quickly nowadays.
But then, at that time
everything was so big, so long
like half a life.

The bikes with locks that rusted.
The innermost part of these rusting bike-locks:
One of the places
we did not study
close enough.

Translated by John Irons