Before the garden was planted voices were heard,
but just in the distance. Old men
with beer glasses in the sauna understood the world.
Their insights into existence gave them authority
to tell what was wrong and what was right
while the benches darkened beneath them.
They were in a closed room that was opened and
became a venue for slithering voices.
The center of existence
shook and burst open.
But the only thing that got stronger
was a paralyzing noise of voices.

Peter Nyberg Mollung, born 1974 in Skogstorp – Sweden, is poet, literary critic, essayist, translator and senior lecturer at Jönköping University. He funded and worked between 2009 and 2019 as editor in chief at Populär Poesi, a poetry magazine that in 2014 was honored as one of the best magazines about culture in Sweden. Peter Nyberg is a prized essayist who has been published in a wide range of papers and magazines. He has published twelve books and eight translations from English into Swedish primary of poets from Wales and Ireland. The poetry work is spread in a variety of journals and translated into Chinese, English, Bangla and Spanish for example. He currently lives and works in the society of Norrahammar.