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Zywa Sep 13
Indescribable,

it's so beautiful here, al-


most beyond my grasp.
"Diary 1977-1978" (2014, Frida Vogels) - June 30th, 1977, Bologna

Collection "Trench Walking"
Zywa Sep 7
Lying on the ****,

you talk about the sails, I --


about happiness.
Novel "De weg naar Sacramento" ("The road to Sacramento", 1977, Gerrit Krol)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 60s and 70s"
Zywa Aug 23
Spring unfolds my eyes

to the great beauty of what --


I already know.
Collection "WoofWoof"
Zywa Jun 11
Stand still where you are,

don't pass by cursorily --


as if in a set.
Collection "Local tardiness"
Zywa Jul 2024
Disillusionment:

seeing the ridiculous --


ignoring beauty.
Novel "De stille kracht" ("The Hidden Force", 1900, Louis Couperus), chapter 2, § 1

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
Zywa Jun 2024
Perfect images,

captured, just for a moment --


Already passed by.
Film "Les magnétiques" ("The magnetics" / "The audiotapes", 2021, Vincent Maël Cardona)

Collection "On the fly"
Zywa May 2024
Walking in silence,

listening attentively --


to what the world says.
Novel "Shalimar the Clown" (2005, Salman Rushdie), chapter India
Zywa May 2024
She's looking outside,

but still, does she see the view --


our beautiful view?
Novella "Fuglene under himmelen" ("The birds under the sky", 2019, Karl Ove Knausgard)

Collection "Glimpsed"
Zywa Apr 2024
Swerving to avoid

a puddle, I almost step --


into another.
Story "Dichtertje" ("Little poet", 1918, Nescio), written in 1917, chapter 11

Collection "Rasping ants"
Jeremy Betts Jan 2024
...the melting ice shifts and strikes a familiar tone against the glass tumbler, abruptly snapping me back to my actuality
It pains me to call it reality but I'm forced to do so untill I change what I see or my surroundings change me
Both options frighten me...

©2024
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