Poem
Translated By Robert Hedin
If you can make a poem
a farmer finds useful,
you should be happy.
A blacksmith you can never figure out.
The worst to please is a carpenter.
Copyright Credit: Olav H. Hauge, "Remedy " from At the Great Door of Morning: Selected Poems and Translations. Translation by Robert Hedin. Translation copyright © 2017 by Robert Hedin. Reprinted by permission of Copper Canyon Press, www.coppercanyonpress.org.