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Zywa Dec 2024
The road has lost us,

we have left it, over there --


it's looking for us.
Poem "Over de weg" ("The road", 1998, Eva Gerlach)

Collection "Passage Passion"
Zywa Nov 2024
There is a boulder

in the middle of the road --


there is a boulder.
Poem "No meio do caminho" ("In the middle of the road", 1928, Carlos Drummond de Andrade)

Collection "Here &Now&"
Zywa Jul 2024
Not the way it is,

only the way it happens –


my life is okay.
Autobiographical account "De harde kern" - 1 ("The *******" - 1, 1966, Frida Vogels) and "Diary 1966-1967" (2009) - May 15th, 1966 in Blaricum

Collection "Trench Walking"
Zywa Mar 2024
I met Sharon, walked

her along unknown canals --


with bikes everywhere.
Collection "Migration"
Zywa Jan 2024
People like to talk

about the required signposts --


but who is going?
Column "Niemand volgt de richtingaanwijzers nog" ("No one follows the signposts anymore", 2024, Stine Jensen), in de NRC van 12 januari 2024

"Pour une critique de l’économie politique du signe" and "Simulacres et Simulation" ("For a Critique of the Politicval Economy of the Sign", 1972, and "Simulacra & Simulation", 1981, Jean Baudrillard)

Collection "Actively Passive"
Zywa Jan 2024
Our view from the train:

I ride away from the past --


she heads the future.
Poem "Echtpaar in de trein" ("Couple on the train", 1990, Willem Wilmink)

Collection "Appearances"
Zywa Oct 2023
We are on the way,

and we know well: not one road --


leads to an end point.
"On the Road" - "The Original Scroll" (1951, Jack Kerouac), about his activities in 1947-1950, published in 1957/2007, chapter Book Four; Neal Cassidy

Collection "MistI"
Zywa Oct 2023
Downstream, three buckets

of mayonnaise are sailing --


along with our boat.
"Desolation Angels" (1965, Jack Kerouac), chapter 1-2-57: "Mayonnaise - / Mayonnaise comes in cans / down the river"

Collection "MistI"
Zywa Jul 2023
There are just no ways

to our goals, we hesitate --


and saunter about.
"Es gibt ein Ziel", aphorism II,4 #26 (1918, Franz Kafka): "Es gibt ein Ziel, aber keinen Weg, das was wir Weg nennen ist Zögern." ("There is a goal, but no way, what we call the way is hesitation.")

Collection "Chance"
Zywa Jul 2023
Don't go anywhere,

there is a Way, you just walk --


That's living your life.
Tao

"The Book and the Brotherhood" (1987, Iris Murdoch), § 1

Collection "Unspoken"
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