Tua Forsström
In the photographs your…
In the photographs your
From Snöleopard, 1987 (Snow Leopard, 1990). Translated by David McDuff
eyes are a shade
asymmetrical, there is
no formula for
human beings. Water
and light strangely distributed
Infractions, imagination.
Nakedness. Innocence and crime.
The rondo flows from one of the
inner rooms: something completed
and inevitable
’In order to be able to live in the world
one must first lay its foundation.’
I slit open an envelope
with a knife, freshly mown grass
steams in through the window
It’s the suddenness!
In slow processes!
I say that I regret everything
I regret almost everything, it
makes no difference
I have known you since I was a
child and thought like a child
Yes, water and light.
Cracks in the socle.
Inflammations.
- In the photographs your…
- Then it had been March
- It’s a long time since I was a…