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Zywa Aug 2024
When I visit them

I look to see what has changed --


To be home again.
Autobiographical account "De harde kern" - 1 ("The *******" - 1, 1992, Frida Vogels) and "Diary 1966-1967" (2009), April 1st, 1967 in Amsterdam

Collection "Trench Walking"
Zywa Aug 2024
Summery silence:

curtains closed, and the window --


is on a spacer.
Poem "Nu" ("Now", 1925, Chris van Schagen)

Collection "SoulSenseSun"
Zywa Aug 2024
I'm kissing the shells

of her eyes, the little hairs --


prickle: be careful!
Poem "Meisje" ("Girl", 1916, Chris van Schagen)

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
Zywa Aug 2024
Evening twilight lays

intimacy in the world --


tenderness in me.
Poem "Avond" / "VI" ("Evening" / "VI", 1886, Willem Kloos)

Collection "Moist glow"
Zywa Aug 2024
No marriage vow, but

something special: a wedding --


that, oops, is cancelled.
Novel "Jackson's Dilemma" (1995, Iris Murdoch), chapter One

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Jul 2024
So I am pregnant,

but I have no idea what --


my mother size is.
Poem "Plus" (2023, Jana Arns)

Collection "Unseen"
Zywa Jul 2024
You and you only

know my pain, for you yourself --


did it, broke my heart.
Poem "Und wüßten’s die Blumen" ("And if the flowers knew", 1823, Heinrich Heine), from the collection "Lyrisches Intermezzo" - XXII, set to music in 1840 by Robert Schumann

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
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