The Trouble with Trauma
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Johan Christian Dahl, An Eruption of Vesuvius (1824). The Metropolitan Museum of Art If I share my trauma, it will be put on trial.
My memory will be asked to represent itself under oath.
The prosecution won’t rest until they’ve extracted the wound,
pulled threads to unravel me.
Trauma is a weak defense.
Moments of Revealing itself when I least expect it. Resisting the invasion of foreign agents; The therapist, the lawyer, the lover.
