Stone, and the Hour Before Dawn
Poetry·3 min read·January 18, 2026

Stone, and the Hour Before Dawn

A sequence of seven short poems, written at the kitchen table, in the year I learned to sit with not-knowing.

Mira Tovesdotter
Mira Tovesdotter

Poet. Photographer of thresholds.

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I.
The kettle knows.
The kettle has always known.
It is kind enough not to say.

II.
Stone is patient weather.
Weather is impatient stone.
Between them, a life.

III.
I woke at four.
The house was listening
to something I could not hear.

Mira Tovesdotter
Mira Tovesdotter

Mira's work moves between verse and image — rooms half-lit, frost on window glass, the moment a kettle begins to sing. She teaches a winter workshop in Gotland each February.

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