Milla van der Have wrote her first poem at 16, during a physics class. Since then she has written poetry, short stories and fairy tales. She has (self)published two poetry books. Since 2008 she has changed to English as a writing language, because she feels English better enables her to create the fiction and poetry she has in mind. Themes in poetry are love, loneliness,death, myth. In fiction, themes are: alienation, myth, change, tricks of fate. Milla occasionally posts samples of her work on www.millavanderhave.blogspot.com.
Summer 2010
Table of Contents - Vol. VI, No. 2
Milla van der Have
The light-tight chamber (camera obscura)
The art of dying against the light is a simple one. All
one really needs is absence. You squint your eyes against
what seemed abundance and only a quivering remains.
You drop the mask, as it is, stand barefoot, take measures
against quantities you know. Factual, steady things, of
a familiar coldness. Properties you can rely on, even if
they never truly meet the requirements you set out for them.
In the end, they won't suffice, only this. A telltale knowing
of the way things work. In the end, what it comes down
to is mere trepidation. To hold your heart over nothingness
and prevail.
© Milla van der Have
