Jenny Hval

Think big, girl, like a king, think kingsize. Did you learn nothing in America? I've placed four big bananas in my lap
In New York I don't dream. I al...

Some days I feel like my body is a cushion held up by thin wires
And I can see myself from above holding wires in my hands.

I'm six or seven and dreaming that I'm a boy.
I emerged out of the water and went into the garden
with a small silver hand between my thighs.
Later, i...

How thick is a surface?

Why this and not that?
The only question you should ask, or maybe
What is the deepest human longing?
I've said it before and ...

Self-doubt,
Self-doubt,
It's what I do.
This music, this sound,
This voice and these words.
All that carry "me",
It's not writing nor music, ****,
It'...

What is it to take care of yourself? What are we take in care of?
A million bedrooms with hands softly lulling
our divine dicks and clits, without tel...

Look at these trees
Look at this grass
Look at those clouds
Look at them now
And look at them now
Now, look at them now,look at them now
Take a closer...

Come with me
Fall into the wildscape
Reverse the church bells
Swiping in the mud
With two fingers
And one in your mouth, wandering
I was a thumbsucker...

Red cannas in the sky
Red cannas in the sky
I didn't think about it at the time
I didn't think about it at the time
But in the desert
I think I was tr...

(Jenny Hval)
 So, tell me, that time in the sunset
 When we entered the sunlight
 And were apart
 Like in every cliché revealing itself
 (Look, a man,...

She had this dream about a song
She was certain that it was about a burial
the ritual beautifully written
Even the groove was filled with sadness
Ever...

Once she was a mystery of life.
Now she is skyping with her friend
They are both childless.
It rings a hollow tone: childless.
No longer a mystery of ...

Now, imagine a stage decorated with intention
This stage is obviously, literally, falling apart
A rose is a rose is a rose is a cigarette
The stage .....