About the work

A closer look.

The poem names Loki twice and then never looks for him again. So he gets out. He is standing on the shore of the world after the fire, watching the grass come back through the ash, and there is an eagle over the water that the poem never bothers to name. The eagle is his. The last pages of Voluspa are the only place in the whole poem where the future is left open, and he is standing in it. One JPG that prints clean at 20x16 in. The telling is the last pages of Voluspa, where the poem stops looking for him and never names the eagle. Print it yourself, or take the file to any print shop and ask for 20x16. It is the same picture either way.