PHENOMENOLOGY 1.9
TEXT TO TEEN YEARS AND ELASTIC
time
has an elastic quality
from childhood
into teenage years
narrating
with letters
which admit and confess
too much
and then it snaps out of my hands
and lashes my eye
from childhood
into teenage years
narrating
with letters
which admit and confess
too much
and then it snaps out of my hands
and lashes my eye
It wasn’t me who burned the diaries. It was someone I once
was. All the texts about my teenage years. Thick as blood. The paper congealed,
red. I saved the photographs. Back then, long ago, I am sitting down by the
beach to the west by the sea. My eyes looking foolishly into the camera. Always
so stupid, my eyes. I see that now. Waiting for a future that ate into flesh in
a completely different way than I expected.
PHENOMENOLOGY 1.1 / TEXT TO ASCONA / TEXT TO MONTE VERITÀ
PHENOMENOLOGY 1.11 /TEXT TO NAME
She Who Writes is Another
Brad Harmon is a writer, translator, and scholar of Nordic and German literature, film, and philosophy. His forthcoming translations include Katarina Frostenson’s The Space of Time (Threadsuns Press, October 2024) and Birgitta Trotzig’s A Landscape (Sublunary Editions, November 2024). He currently lives in Stockholm. bradharmon.me