Eskatos & the Stretched Necks of Stillness

with movements from usfrom the mortalto the already crossedthey who sing our songsthey who remember our livesIn 186 verses, Mats Soderlund catalogues the natural phenomena of Sweden's primeval northern woodlands. The poem leads its reader down overgrown paths, beyond the flickering of leaves and lichen, to meet "e;the dead"e;: a troop of scattered fates that populate the Nordic landscape in the fo...