Poetry

Insomnia

by Pauliina Hyytiäinen

Every night you arrive
whisper carnage of mind
and foretell my sanity’s failure

I count rocks
which heavily weigh
at the foot of my bed
where the sheep have been slaughtered

You nail my eyelids open
sit on my chest
and make my breathing broken
all the while laughing
how you make me your whore
so charmingly often

If it weren’t for you
I would know how to rhyme
about big calming words
about peace of mind
which people always try to reach for

But now my poem
is a tainted celebration
of our twisted union
of how you’ve had me for years
and how no white pill
could come between us



Dinner

by Aleksi Saukkoriipi

Eat your dinner, were her words.
The boy’s eyes, looking back,
I don’t want to, words like prayer.
But you must, with no softness.
Where’s daddy? so quietly,
Then with a tear, we won’t wait.

So he sat and ate without tasting.
After a while his mother rose,
Go to your room,
cheer up and play.
Steps so long took him up
Into his room; he would build a fortress
Where he would stand to the end of time.



Two untitled poems

by Jonna Kangas

1.

Snow White is thin
And doesn’t feel okay
She couldn’t eat an apple
She vomited it away

Sleeping Beauty
Has irrational fears
And wants to sleep
For a hundred years

Cinderella’s life
Is nothing but fight
One day she’ll leave
Won’t be back at midnight

Although Belle’s husband
Is a violent beast
She won’t leave him
Until they are deceased

And humble Aladdin
Was a true role model
And now his only friend
Is Genie in the bottle



2. the last Indian chief
famous Freezing Rain
was taken by
a steam train



Untitled poem

by Silja Partanen

adding soap two times, three times

still my palms are dirty

counting, ticking, three-zero-zero-twenty… add three-three-zero-eighty. divide into two.

staTic snowfall, crypted cipher

Hidden transmission

Three-dots-three-lines-three-dots

Hi mom, good morning

How are you doing today?

Are the new pills helping

- are all of them still there to stay?

one-two-thrEe-knocks on the glass

repeating, repeating

wash, gotta wash, ’til all of it is gone

square root of eleven is three-point-three-one-six-six-two-four-seven-nine-zero-three-five-five-four

all of it, coming through

universe’s source code

interstellar x-raY

l

   i

      s

         t

             e

                n

Dad asked to blow you a kiss

But he couldn’t be here

We’ve been cleaning the house like this

To make the shadows disappear

shhh, it’s the third call  the one thAt counts all the way

heaR the deduction, simplest sEduction

sine-sine-seventy-cosine

is there a faucet dripping?

my fingers are sticky as a snail

They say you still claw your ears

And grate the filth away

Until your hands cry bloody tears

And the transmissions stay at bay

can’t you hear the silenced voice in the encoded frequency,

the frenzy?

can’t you Hear me? Can’t you hear it?

shhh

three-dots-three-lines-three-dots

synthEsizing all away

ditditdit-dahdahdah-ditditdit

listen, goddammit, it’s scReaming.

I’m sorry - please don’t cry  Nurse will show up soon Hold my hand, stop asking why syringe full of sedative boon

three-dots-three-lines-three-dots

ditditdit-dahdahdah-ditditdit 

FootstEps of the gods, on their way