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Zywa Oct 2024
Adulthood is the

hard skin against feelings of --


gentle compassion.
End of the novella "Een mooie jonge vrouw" (2014, "A beautiful young wife", 2016, Tommy Wieringa) - Anesthesia dolorosa (painful numbness, deafferentation pain)

Collection "Wean Di"
Zywa Oct 2024
I wrap myself up

in my poem, to show me --


show my open wounds.
Poem "Schizophrenia" (2016, Ghayath Almadhoun)
Zywa Oct 2024
Tower in the bed

of sand, the unlit beacon --


of a happy time.
Poems "In de Grote Storm van" en "Als alles verloren" ("In the Great Storm of" and "When all is lost", 2017, Wendela de Vos) about the sand-covered church near Skagen (Jutland) that remained standing as a beacon for navigation at sea, and a loved one lost in de storm

Collection "Stall"
Zywa Oct 2024
We do this, do that,

as it suits us, everything --


takes more time that way.
Column "Een leeg hoofd" / "Een vakantie als exposuretherapie, de psycholoog zou trots zijn" ("An empty head" / "A holiday as exposure therapy, the psychologist would be proud", 2023, Frank Huiskamp) in NRC, August 14th, 2023

Collection "Stall"
Zywa Oct 2024
I walk all day long,

thinking all the time, thinking --


of you, behind me.
Poem "Wandeling" ("Walking", 2004, Anna Enquist), in memory of her daughter Margit (1974-2001)

Collection "Stall"
Zywa Oct 2024
Then it is autumn,

wind, wet twilight hours, the shops --


illuminated.
"Het Bureau - De dood van Maarten Koning" ("The Office - The Death of Maarten Koning", 2000, Han Voskuil)

Collection "Not too bad"
Zywa Oct 2024
Two short taps wake me,

a dry sound. Is it knocking?


Is it an omen?
"Het Bureau - De dood van Maarten Koning" ("The Office - The Death of Maarten Koning", 2000, Han Voskuil)

Collection "Not too bad"
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