Publication day for Animism is Infinite!
The second collection of poems from Rune Kjær Rasmussen
Sul Books and RITONA are happy to announce that today is the release day for Danish poet and animist Rune Kjær Rasmussen’s second collection of poems, Animism is Infinite.
To celebrate its release, here are two poems from the collection.
Prayer to a small green frog
I pray to you
that you stay the same
small green frog or maybe slightly growing
in all the ways
that suit a frog like you.
There is a certainty
about you being all about integrity,
a wholesome being,
always in your right element
if no one interferes.
There is so much peace in the way
you carry yourself
reminding me of nothing but you
and the mystery there is
in your every move about
how exactly your life feels.
Do not try to hear
Do not try to hear
what you want to hear.
It is not there.
Listen, instead,
with your whole being
to that place where you are
on the spectrum
of life and death.
Have faith
in something ancient
and yet untold.
Something cracks off in the dark.
And you shiver as a way of bleeding.
Nourish your dreams with those wordless seeds.
Jump over these flames
that your nights scream about
to set fire to your muscles of imagination.
And take it all in.
Animism is Infinite, by Rune Kjær Rasmussen, can be ordered at this link.