#2 Þórunn Erlu- Valdimarsdóttir (1954 – )
Bookflood
Words are gathered.
Impelled to presses
black, white and peatred.
In a banker’s waiting room
funds drip down aged tender.
Funds spawned by funds.
Rinsing raincoats,
pouring from boots into bathtub
turning black from the letters,
bleating black sheep.
Found funds,
my hound a showerhead
drives them into the hole.
Þórunn Erlu-Valdimarsdóttir
Translation: Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl