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Zywa Nov 2
As a child I felt:

there is a secret in me --


big, for the whole world.
Novel "Voor God en de Sociale Dienst" ("For God and Social Services", 2000, Nicolien Mizee), fax dated September 30th, 1999 about (January 8th) 1978

Collection "Out of place"
Zywa Nov 2
Suddenly I know

the secret hidden in me --


and I speak it out.
Novel "Voor God en de Sociale Dienst" ("For God and Social Services", 2000, Nicolien Mizee), fax dated September 30th, 1999 about (March) 1978

Collection "Out of place"
Zywa May 14
I talk in my sleep,

I recorded it and then --


quickly erased it.
Novel "Shalimar the Clown" (2005, Salman Rushdie), chapter India

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa Mar 29
My foe shows no light,

but I do sense some little --


dark within myself.
Novel "Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights" (which is 1001 nights, 2015, Salman Rushdie), chapter 8 "In Which the Tide Begins to Turn"

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa Feb 25
The world is too tight,

would I be too big for it --


or can it still grow?
Poem "De wens" ("The wish", 2019, Bart Moeyaert)

Collection "Skin-contact"
Zywa Feb 20
You cry in your sleep,

that is a side of yourself --


that you don't know yet.
Novel "The Golden House" (2017, Salman Rushdie), chapter (1-) 12

Collection "Low gear [2]"
Zywa Jan 24
At most I myself

catch what I mean, with you it's --


misunderstandings.
Novel "Buitenstaanders" ("Outsiders", 1983, Renate Dorrestein), ยง 1

Collection "Wean Di"
Zywa Jan 15
Interrogators

give you a magnifier --


to observe yourself.
Novel "Maurits en de feiten" ("Maurits and the facts", 1986, Gerrit Krol), Prologue

Collection "Specialities"
Zywa Jan 1
Living to the full,

always searching for balance --


and finding myself.
For Maria Godschalk

Collection "On living on [1]"
Zywa Jan 1
You don't live to get

to know yourself, nonetheless --


it is part of it.
Novel "Perfecte stilte" ("Perfect silence", 2011, Thomas Verbogt), chapter Ritual

Collection "Inmost [1]"
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