First Poem: Warning Light Calling

Prelude

During the morning I improved my sense of orientation
in the city by taking a long walk along the inner boulevards.

~ Walter Benjamin.

Space. Sample. Love

I will tell the world about the demon who grabbed me
and who raged in anguish the thousands of planets.
Whole multitudes of young comrades were obsessed and infected,
and made prey to space soldiers and strange, unidentified birds—
I will tell the earth about that moment when poetry and love
made me go Sputnik.

Club Moscow in Aarhus

Yelena grabbed my harness,
I was afraid of her. She was
a woman of the night;
between the black iron
mountains, she had a glare
like sunflowers from
a forbidden spring.

I left my home space moon
for a parachute stretched
over the earthly sphere
like a huge pink canopy bed.

About Warning Light Calling

About Peter Graarup Westergaard

Peter Graarup Westergaard has published the poetry collection Nordvest (2017), also translated into English and Danish Northwest (2019).

He completed his MA in Comparative Literature at Aarhus University (2004) and holds a degree in English Literature also from Aarhus University (2015). He has also studied English Literature at Concordia University Montreal (2000-2001) and philosophy at Oxford University, Department of Continuing Education (2018-2020).

He teaches Danish, English and philosophy at a secondary boarding school in Denmark.