The Dead Have No Telephones
- The Dead Have No Telephones
Letters no one has written never arrive.
Snow covers the churchyard. A taxi waits outside for ten years. The dead have no telephones. [End Page 71]
Niels Hav is a full-time poet and short-story writer, with awards from the Danish Arts Council. In English he has published the poetry collection We Are Here (BookThug, 2006), as well as poems and stories in numerous magazines, including the Literary Review, Shearsman, Exile, the Los Angeles Review, and PRISM International.
Heather Spears is a Canadian writer and artist living in Denmark. She has published four novels; twelve collections of poetry; The Creative Eye (2007), the first of a series on visual perception; and three books of drawings. She has won numerous awards in Canada, including the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. She travels widely and has drawn at many international festivals, and in hospitals around the world.
