The Runes

(These words were given me in a dream. In the dream I was a Finnish child of

8 or 9 who had been given by her teacher the task of writing out these 3 ancient

runes of her people. This is how they went:)

(x) Know the pinetrees. Know the orange dryness of sickness and

death in needle and cone. Know them too in green health, those

among whom your life is laid.

(2) Know the ship you sail on. Know its timbers. Deep the fjord

waters where you sail, steep the cliffs, deep into the unknown

coast goes the winding fjord. But what would you have? Would

you be tied up to a sandwhite quay in perpetual sunshine, yards

and masts sprouting little violet mandolins?

(3) In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms-

so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down.