In Oslo

Sophia Walsh

There is clean air and birch trees whose

leaves are beginning to turn. To contact you

or not—I am trying to decide.

I no longer understand the terms of

our intimacy—if it could even be called that.

Ours. Intimacy.

Jenny’s father serves me pickled

herring on bread with butter. I will buy

today’s issue of Le Monde. I will make various

decisions, all pointing me in one direction or

another. There is an attempt to get closer

to you, and then there is the rest.

Sophia Walsh is a writer based in Paris, France, and the author of the novel Rien. She previously lived and worked on unceded land in so-called Australia.
Originally published:
December 10, 2024

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