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Zywa Oct 2024
The children go play,

grandpa is drowsy, today --


No stories today.
Song "Opa", performance "Neerlands Hoop in Bange Dagen" (Song "Grandpa", performance "Hope of the Netherlands in Fearful Days", 1972, Freek de Jonge and Bram Vermeulen)

Collection "Mist-I"
Zywa Oct 2024
Where do I end up?

Didn't I steer well or am I --


being pushed away?
Performance "De vergrijzing", #6 van de serie "De vergrijzing" ("The ageing", #6 of the series "The ageing", 2004, Freek de Jonge)

Collection "Mist-I"
Zywa Oct 2024
Happiness just comes

and goes, again and again --


it's new, it is: now.
Poem "Heimwee naar de toekomst" - 6 ("Nostalgia for the future" - 6, 2013, Marjoleine de Vos)

Collection "Inwardings"
Zywa Oct 2024
Clothes being blown up

from the grass by the river --


What could have happened?
Poem "Achter het einde" ("Beyond the end", 1931, Gerrit Achterberg)

Collection "Inwardings"
Zywa Oct 2024
A full moon tonight,

light pink like a peach, perfect --


and inedible.
Poem "het meesterwerk: lichtrose maan, vol" ("the masterpiece: light-pink moon, full", 1978, Gerrit Kouwenaar)

Collection "Inwardings"
Zywa Oct 2024
My house is getting

overgrown, and so am I --


by my memories.
Poem by the Japanese emperor Juntoku (1197-1242): Momoshiki ya / Furuki nokiba no / Shinobu ni mo / Nao amari aru / Mukashi nari keri

Collection "Inwardings"
Zywa Oct 2024
Cradle great sadness

in music, there are no words --


that can carry it.
Interview "Tussen het brullen door" ("In between wailing") by Frénk van der Linden with Anna Enquist, about "De ijsdragers" ("The ice bearers"), in the NRC Handelsblad of February 1st, 2002

Collection "Blankets of snow"
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