introduction.

[yearofthehorse]

Omina is a poetry collection by Danish poets, Naja Marie Aidt & Mette Moestrup, from 2016.

this will be about
doubt and this will
be a hammer
of burning steel

this will be about
the hardness of the heart
and this will be soft
as a severed breast

Through a series of mirrored poems, we follow the journey of the main dramatis personae, the Amazon, addressed either in the second person or described in the third person singular as she leaves behind the ghosts of her past to travel between battlefields, through forests and across mountains. Her only companions on this journey are her horse and her dog, otherwise she's alone, having said goodbye to her love under unknown circumstances. What she fights against is injustice and the power structures of society, though she fights by also killing innocents in cold blood. In the end, she has lost a companion, her dog, because she realizes she must give up everything of which she has more than one. Only then is she ready to turn around, to venture back to the losses she has been fleeing from.

a downpour of petals
a downpour of falling stars

is there a constellation of stars
called the foal

you are breathing

everything of which you have more than 1
you shall part from

and then you must turn around

The title of the book comes from Latin, it's the plural form of omen which means warning.