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Zywa Oct 14
[ Only when you're old ]
Only when you're old

do you know: it doesn't matter --


if you're postponing.
Novel "Vreemde streken" ("Foreign places", 1985, Renate Dorrestein), chapter 2

Collection "Old sore"
#oldage #knowledge #experience #postponement
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Zywa Feb 14
[ I don't want it yet]
I don't want it yet,

not to go home already --


please, can I clean up?
Poem "Waarom de wind zo boos is" ("Why the wind is so angry", 1982, Ed Leeflang)

Community for young people with an intellectual disability

C-ollection "Stall"
#goodbye #postponement
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Zywa Nov 2023
[ I left her behind ]
I left her behind,

'See you tomorrow', I thought --


it would be okay.
Poem "antie Gerty, suster Kamfer, antie Trui" ("aunt Gerty, sister Kamfer, aunt Trui", 2016, Ronelda Kamfer)

Collection "Home sea"
#mother #postponement #goodbye
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