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Zywa Jan 2024
They're always swimming,

but fish do move even more --


outside the water.
"Maurits en de feiten" ("Maurits and the facts", 1986, Gerrit Krol), § 2

Collection "Rasping ants"
Zywa Jan 2024
You find your own laws

of nature, because you choose --


your observations.
Novel "Een Fries huilt niet" ("A Frisian does not cry", 1980, Gerrit Krol), chapter 2.2

Collection "Appearances"
Cade Ng Jan 2024
Under the streetlights

i see

hundreds of people

walking, stopping

looking a little

happy or sad

a stranger to each other

not a word is required

passing each other by

in the same or opposite

direction

sometimes someone will

try to make eye contact

or take a look at others

other times they are just

chasing pavement

footsteps confused

gazes blurred

they are getting closer

just to get farther

away.
neth jones Dec 2023
blood                                                  
blood patter and splash                            
leads us         concrete toward
tracing back        til the scene        
i’ve flashing thoughts of the brutality
   the violence     that must of cussed  
  between persons            
         in fear    fray    and inebriation

down the steps                                     
            my four year old child and I go          
the greasing bleed     in bronze putters  
growing and leadening
on stone labours

glowing citrus    the refrigeration
                          of the underpass
          ‘flips the bird'   at the summer blaze
grey dead coral bricks of urination  
seasoned in deep   beading now cold
the broke up weapon                        
                   candy slates of brittle teeth
glass / bottle / beer /brown
    the neck its' hilt              
     and the main mud of the bleeding

the flies are the thing                                
                         th­at bothers my ‘little nipper’
usually a flapper of queries on repetition
no other queries are raised
     just eager for the vibration
      of train carriages gatling over our heads

i stopper any words i may have on the matter
  he holds my hand with his hot hand
we progress under a port arms                                   
                            procession of caged floodlights
      and walled in by fresh graffiti
fingers dripping   retching for the guttering
Observed 23/06/23

unused -

on thickened walls      painted on over and over
by the neighbourhood watch
a  narrowed burrow
neth jones Oct 2023
traffic trodden crab apples
                            and choke cherries
                 sluice the sidewalk
not one wasp observed

the wasps this year are found
not around    human food or trash cans
( sugar drunk, bat angry or absurd )

this year they thrive around cut grass
and chippings from outdoor furniture finishing

with this appetite
what are they prepping for ?
20/09/23
Zywa Oct 2023
I like the attic,

sitting in the armchair, in --


front of the window.
Novel "De eeuwige jachtvelden" (1995, "The happy hunting grounds", 1999 Nanne Tepper), End (Fourth book)

Collection "Within the walls"
Zywa Sep 2023
It is by waiting

that you can see what the world --


has to offer you.
Novel "L'inventario delle nuvole" ("The cloud inventory", 2023, Franco Faggiani), § 2

Collection "Chance"
neth jones Aug 2023
Four Crows fly over
the rear gunner ***** twice as hard
            to keep his mates
Gaps in his Wings
   from history with a Predator

Clammy weather
                       preceding
                 grey summer rainfall
summer 23
no.7

24/06/23
neth jones Aug 2023
the dog night salivates and commands
                                     and commands
but i am abroad from that
  asleep with my family
  under the open windows
as others stew in the clubs, bars
     and packed terraces
summer 23
no.6

18/07/23
neth jones Aug 2023
the aggressive dote of the sun
   over the shimmering bleat of the city

muted by a power cut
summer 23
no.5

17/07/23
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