Annual Sowthistle, Göteborg, April 5th, 2003



Sonchus oleraceus
Kålmolke i september, i november,
i februari och i maj

Eva Ekeblad, 2003

Annual Sowthistle, for its fifth turn.
One of those common S-weeds
that got this self-imposed duty of mine
over its first winter - filling its quota
without a summer presentation.
There were flowers in November.

Appropriately put together
(thanks to Erik Ljungstrand)
with a page from the Book of Weeds
printed in 1926, and translated from the Norwegian
original by Emil Korsmo
as OGRÄS
with the subtitle
ogräsarternas liv
och kampen mot dem i nutidens jordbuk


The Life of Weeds
and the Struggle against them
in Contemporary Agriculture...

Me, I read it first as: The Life of Weeds
and their Struggles in Contemporary Agriculture.