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Zywa Mar 28
Death is put away,

or it is lost, forgotten --


again and again.
Poem "Dis wat die dood doen" ("That's what death does", 2016, Ronelda Kamfer)

Collection "Here &Now&"
Zywa Mar 28
The table top is

sticky, the handle too, I'll --


better wash my hands?
Poem "Het plakt" ("Sticky", 2019, Leander Vaes), included in the collection "Poëziejongens" ("Poetry Boys") by Mustafa Kör

Collection "Here &Now&"
Zywa Mar 27
He is back, being

a foreigner in the land --


he longed for so much.
Novella "Tralievader" (1991, "Nightfather", 1994, Carl Friedman), chapter 'Vreemdeling' (Foreigner) - [1] Odysseus, [2] people who survived a German **** concentration camp, [3] ...

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
Zywa Mar 27
I cough a little,

it sounds muffled, like a thump --


on a concrete wall.
Novel "Sekai no owari to Hado-boirudo Wandarando" (1985, "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World", 1991, Haruki Murakami), chapter 1, 'Elevator, silence, overweight'

Collection "Within the walls"
Zywa Mar 26
The heart as a drum,

and the mouth as a trumpet:


that's a human life.
Poem by the Zen-monk Muso Soseki (1274-1351), included in the 1986 collection "Japanese Death Poems", compiled by Yoel Hoffmann: "Thus have I rolled my life throughout / inside and out, reclined, upright / What is all this? / A beating drum / a trumpet’s blare / No more"

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
Zywa Mar 26
A grand scenery,

it makes my presence smaller --


and also my thoughts.
Novel "Tutto il cielo che serve" ("All the sky you need", 2022, Franco Faggiani), page 175

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
Zywa Mar 25
Love is a moon, it

changes from day to day, there's --


increase, there's decrease.
Novel "De stiefmoeder" (2011, "The Stepmother", Renate Dorrestein), part 'Claire', chapter Five

L'amore è come la luna: quando non aumenta, diminuisce (Love is like the moon: when it does not increase, it decreases)

Collection "Old sore"
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