Luleå Biennial 2018
17.11.2018~17.2.2019
The one who has studied history knows that
Svea Granberg did not die
the third of March in
the house of Flamman
Biding her time
after a thousand sorrows
she’ll soon bring the
old to ruin
* * *
Everyone cannot be a
Danko as in Gorky’s poem
like Torgny, twelve years old
dead by burning
Still he is one of
five whose hearts glow
for the red fire that
is continuously lit
* * *
Flamman burnt but had already
suffered great damage from
the hard years of
transport prohibition
There to extinguish
Arthur’s voice that cut against
days when people screamed that
Finland’s cause is ours
* * *
The people who returned from Spain
were seen to have betrayed their country
for Finland they were
now queuing up
Alice became a victim
although she didn’t want to
die where Rappe demanded
that one should die
* * *
Strange thing that those that
never cried for war
were denied life
Maj was one of them
Pieces on a board
much too meagre
they lost the future
hopeless, out of sight