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In all its colours,

life keeps unfolding in us --


deep within our soul.
Painting "Baby" (in the cradle, 1917, Gustav Klimt)

At the birth of Harper Elizabeth Engwerda on September 14th, 2021

Collection "web tissue"
 Jun 15 Hakim Kassim
Zywa
Neighbours: first a fence

needs to be installed, and then --


net curtains as well.
Collection "Truder"
 Jun 15 Hakim Kassim
Zywa
Does a girl really

need to learn to see herself --


as their *** object?
Collection "Froend"
 Jun 15 Hakim Kassim
Zywa
The movie actress

sits on horsehair, you see it --


because she feels it.
Film "The Phoenician Scheme" (2025, Wes Anderson) - Liesl sits on a horsehair mattress

Collection "Local inconveniences"
 Jun 15 Hakim Kassim
Zywa
Doe
 Jun 15 Hakim Kassim
Zywa
Doe
As if I mocked him
or Love, so wounded
he dreams me

on swift legs
a doe-woman
without bow and arrow

graceful, and shy
slender, and modest
wise, but a woman

subject
to his desire
to possess

my desires
sharp in view
as I run, longingly

looking at him, panting
entangled in his hands
until he is satisfied
Ballet "Sylvia ou la nymphe de Diane" ("Sylvia or the nymph of Diane", 1876, music Léo Delibes, libretto Jules Barbier and Jacques de Reinach, after the 1573 poem "Aminta" by Torquato Tassos)

Collection "Froend"
 Jun 15 Hakim Kassim
Zywa
Everything is different, I am
really alive now, my friend laughs
Really, I dream

that the earth stands still
and the roses keep blooming
My nights are full

of expectation
and I will be saved
whenever it storms

No more accounts
of the benefits
of the doubts

about the future
of the world
and myself
Collection "Without reserve"
 Mar 17 Hakim Kassim
Zywa
Every drop its own

pathway, that's how water makes --


its way to the sea.
Composition "Uisce" ("Water", 2007, Kate Moore), performed by the Herz Ensemble Singers in the Organpark on February 14th, 2025

Collection "org anp ARK" #91
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