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by Sigurlín Bjarney Gísladóttir

Love is always
100 degrees Fahrenheit
130 beats per minute
150 millimeters of quicksilver at maximum
90 minimum
3 breaths per second
A tipsy quiver at the edges of the atmosphere

Love is sometimes
10.0 on the Richter scale
130 beats per year
150 meters per second
90 ardent instants
3 teaspoons of salt

Love is also
1013.25 hectopascals

still water
sorrow

Translated by Larissa Kyzer.