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Zywa 2h
She's looking outside,

but still, does she see the view --


our beautiful view?
Novella "Fuglene under himmelen" ("The birds under the sky", 2019, Karl Ove Knausgard)

Collection "Glimpsed"
Zywa Apr 29
Swerving to avoid

a puddle, I almost step --


into another.
Story "Dichtertje" ("Little poet", 1918, Nescio), written in 1917, chapter 11

Collection "Rasping ants"
Jeremy Betts Jan 3
...the melting ice shifts and strikes a familiar tone against the glass tumbler, abruptly snapping me back to my actuality
It pains me to call it reality but I'm forced to do so untill I change what I see or my surroundings change me
Both options frighten me...

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Zywa Jun 2023
There is a pond in

the forest lake: beautiful --


black ice around it.
Series of poems "De vijver in het meer" ("The pond in the lake", 1983, Hans Faverey)

Collection "Held/True"
Zywa Feb 2023
The plants will show you

where it is passable here:


the Questioning Bog.
Raised bog near the village of Vragender (Interrogative, Questioning) in the Achterhoek (Rear-corner), near Winterswijk

Sphagnum floats on the meters deep water, and it waves when you walk on it

"Het Bureau - Het A.P. Beerta-Instituut" ("The Office - The A.P. Beerta-Institute", 1998, Han Voskuil), page 931-932

Collection "Not too bad [1974-1989]"
Zywa Nov 2022
Fairy-beautiful

is the house under the snow --


No imperfections.
Collection "NightWatch"
Zywa Nov 2022
There's a lot of sun

in the salt on my skin, please --


taste where I come from.
"Kan ingenting om svampar" ("Know nothing about mushrooms", 2009, Jila Mossaed)

Collection "Skin-contact"
Zywa Oct 2022
The ordinary

is in slow motion simply --


nothing but beauty.
"Cashapona" (2022, Germaine Sijstermans) for bass clarinet, cello and *****, performed on October 30th, 2022 in the Organpark, by Germaine Sijstermans (bass clarinet), Marcus Kaiser (cello), and Dante Boon (*****)

Collection "org anp ark" #244
Zywa Aug 2022
Step by step I walk

through the landscape, more and more --


it penetrates me.
"Marcher, une philosophie" ("A philosophy of walking", 2010, Frédéric Gros)

Collection "Inmost"
Zywa May 2022
Something sings beneath

reality, there's the beat --


of a heart, loudly.
"Underneath" (2022, Jasna Velickovic), composition for hyperorgan, part 1 of a chain composition by ten composers, performed by her in the Organpark on May 20th, 2022

Collection "org anp ark" #208
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