Cloud

a poem by Jan Oskar Hansen

Low mist on asphalted road
the landscape has vanished
and I’m driving on a cloud.
An eagle sees me and rasps abuse:
You have no business here wingless man.

Stop and wait,
the stillness hum
but I see no angels
and hear no ethereal tunes from golden harps;
gently the cloud puts me back to earth,
the road is black and shiny.