"When We Leave Each Other" by Henrik Nordbrandt ****

• Summer Sub Club
• Open Letter Series
• Poetry
• Danish poet
• Originally published 2013
• Quotes:
• Translator's Introduction:  "But of course, the great wonder of poetry is the possibility it holds for true communication, across years and continents and tongues:  the possibility that someday someone, in some distant place, might find Nordbrandt's once-scribbled lines, and breathe them to life again, and understand."
• p.5..."When we leave each other, we leave at the same time every place we've ever been together...."
• p.51..."You struck a match, and the flame was so blinding you couldn't find what you were looking for in the dark before the matchstick burned down to your fingers and the pain made you forget what you'd lost."
• p.6..."If you think of the steps you'll never have the strength to get to the top.  If you climb them with a child in your arms and take in the view you won't even notice the steps, and soon won't give a damn for the view."
• p.81...."...I opened a drawer filled with regret."
• p.123..."It's so bright it's like summer, and so bright it's like always."
• p.137..."...make nothing needless..."
• p.139...."Point".....fantastic
• p.145..."Joy is like an hourglass we keep turning and turning to make it last.  And sorrow's what runs down."
• p.151..."Last of December"...poignant
• Review:  This is a lovely collection of poetry by a Danish poet whom I was unfamiliar with, unrhymed, and very moving.  I enjoyed his imagery quite a bit.