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Zywa Dec 2024
Our cherry orchard

is full of glitter-garlands --


Do the birds party?
Collection "Local inconveniences"
Zywa Dec 2024
A flowering shrub

at the monastery gate:


butterflies greet me.
Collection "web tissue"
Zywa Dec 2024
We're not together,

but write the more lovingly --


'You're so dear to me!'
Novel "The Green Knight" (1993, Iris Murdoch), chapter 4 Eros - Aleph calls Peter Mir 'the Green Knight'

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Dec 2024
It is still so new,

I'm disconcerted, sitting --


here waiting for you.
Song "Turn me on" (1961, John Loudermilk), a.o. sung by Nina Simone (1967, album "Silk & Soul") and Norah Jones (2002, album "Come away with me")

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in 60s and 70s"
Zywa Dec 2024
He is here, at home,

wherever he is absent --


though still known by us.
On the death of Herman H (November 30th, 2017)

For Ineke J, and Mark, Christel, Ellen, Marianne H

Collection "Local tardiness"
Zywa Dec 2024
Winter evenings at

home, a faint light from outside --


faint sounds blowing by.
Collection "Local tardiness"
Zywa Dec 2024
Well, what my age is?

I have many and waver --


Which one shall I choose?
Novel "Jackson's Dilemma" (1995, Iris Murdoch), chapter Six

Collection "Unspoken"
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