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Zywa May 25
Traces and socks, the

treasure somewhere in the field:


softly disappeared.
Poem "Lemen stilte" ("Clay silence", 2025, Juliën Holtrigter), final poem of the collection "De weg naar huis" ("The road home")

Collection "Stream"
Zywa May 21
Is there still any

room for things that reappear --


after they were lost?
Poem "Lemen stilte" ("Clay silence", 2025, Juliën Holtrigter), final poem of the collection "De weg naar huis" ("The road home")

Collection "Stream"
Zywa Apr 25
All things are still lives

in themselves, unpretentious --


what they are there for.
Novel "Het Bureau - Meneer Beerta" ("The Office - Mister Beerta", 1996, Han Voskuil), 1957 (page 33)

Collection "Not too bad"
Zywa Mar 13
Saved stuff is a nest,

sticking densely around you --


to a dust depot.
Comic strip #94 - "Heer Bommel en Het Ontstoffen" ("Sir Bumble and The Dedusting", 1961, Marten Toonder)

Collection "**** & Lord"
Zywa Jan 22
I just take my loss

when I have lost a scarf and --


I gain detachment.
Column "Hoed" ("Hat", 2018, Arnon Grunberg), in the VPRO broadcasting-guide no. 23, 2018

Collection "Over"
Zywa Sep 2024
I have packed my things

and I am very surprised --


that they are so few.
Novel "The Message to the Planet" (1989, Iris Murdoch), part Six

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa May 2024
I go out and look

around my house as if it --


has to be cleared out.
Diary "De dood heeft mij een aanzoek gedaan - Over dood, leven en liefde" ("Death made me a proposal - About death, life, and love", 2010, Kristien Hemmerechts)

Collection "Being my own museum"
Amanda Kay Burke Jun 2023
Life is not about money or material things
It's about love and the joy it brings
I live by this mantra
Zywa Apr 2023
The Director stands

in his room like a farmer --


in his own courtyard.
"Het Bureau - De dood van Maarten Koning" ("The Office - The Death of Maarten Koning", 2000, Han Voskuil), blz. 43-44, Maarten Koning and director **** van de Marel (1987)

Collection "Not too bad [1974-1989]"
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