Horses, The

Scandinavian Review, Summer 2003 by Forsstrom, Tua

After spending a night

among horses I remember the fresh

smell of ammonia and

melting snow, the green moon

over the green snow's crust, a rat

creaking in the hay room, how I shivered

in my overalls and wool cap toward

morning and how calmly the horses slept

Stina Katchadourian is a literary tranlator and writer who grew up in Finland's Swedish-speaking minority. She has lived in the United States for the past 35 years, and among her publications are four editions of poems by the early modernist poet Edith Sodergren (Love and Solitude, Fjord Press). Ms. Katchadourian has also written a widely performed play based on Sodergren 's poems and letters (The Grass by the Raspberry Patch). Her translations of other Scandinavian poets can be found in many anthologies. Her translation of Marta Tikkanen's Love Story of the Century was published by Capra Press. In addition, Katchadourian has written two documentary non-fiction books based on the American experience in Ottoman Turkey: Efronia, An American Love Stoty and Great Need Over the Water, the Letters of Theresa Huntington (Gomidas Press). A children's book, Molnungen Nimbus, was published in 1990 in Finnish and Swedish.