AITEANDORUIS
On a bend
of the river Oykel, with
the best view
of the Kyle of Sutherland!
You stood
on the high watermark
of ‘ordinary’
Spring tides.
Aiteandoruis –
‘the place of the door’
from the moment
I heard of you
I had to visit.
Aiteandoruis –
It did not matter to me
that nothing survives of you,
‘ankle-high’, or
otherwise!
BAUDOLINO said:
‘a door is not a door if it does not have
a building around it’.
Sometimes, I disagree with
metaphors!
Aiteandoruis –
Door to door,
I visit ruins
seeking the notion
of ‘through’.
In the Kyle of Sutherland
on a bend
in a river
there was a house
with a door.
Aiteandoruis, Kyle of Sutherland:
This is how it is described in the original Ordnance Survey Book:
Tomas Tranströmer:
