Open
I’ve finished writing and translating “Open”, my first explicitly bilingual piece. It’s a very short poetic story, written first in Dutch, and immediately translated into English. Due to the spontaneous nature of the piece, there has been very little in the way of revision, and the rough final result may reflect that. All the same, I feel that the story expresses some of the themes I simply had to put on paper just now.
I quickly printed up two copies, using the last special paper I had around. One is for the archive, one is for Terje Ø, that amazing young writing friend that will hopefully graduate on his experimental prose work Decapitated Snake Descending soon from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.
Both the Dutch and English versions of “Open” will be readable on this blog not too long after I write this.
