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Zywa May 21
Is there still any

room for things that reappear --


after they were lost?
Poem "Lemen stilte" ("Clay silence", 2025, Juliƫn Holtrigter), final poem of the collection "De weg naar huis" ("The road home")

Collection "Stream"
Zywa May 21
In the tea house with

the water lanterns we feel --


life flowing through us.
Novel "An Artist of the Floating World" (1986, Kazuo Ishiguro), chapter 'November 1949'

Reflection of lanterns on the river

Collection "Stream"
Zywa May 20
Beep: she answers me

with an emoticon, as --


if she isn't silent.
Short stories "Gij nu" ("You now", 2016, Griet Op de Beeck), story 'een donkere rookpluim walmt ernstig de lucht in een vreemde geur verspreidt zich een goudvink maakt zich tsjilpend uit de voeten alsof hij groot onheil wil ontvluchten nu het nog kan' ('a dark plume of smoke billows seriously into the air a strange smell spreads a goldfinch takes off chirping as if it wants to escape great disaster while it still can'), chapter Four

Collection "Actively Passive"
Zywa May 20
Really every lie

does need a decent wardrobe --


of nice eloquence.
Story "Il guardaroba dell'eloquenza" ("The wardrobe of eloquence", 1908, Luigi Pirandello)

Collection "Actively Passive"
Zywa May 19
You know the feeling

of not belonging, being --


different, a guest.
Novel "Twee vrouwen" ("Twice a Woman", 1975, Harry Mulisch)

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
Zywa May 19
Hope is not purely

positive, because it goes --


hand in hand with fear.
Short stories "Gij nu" ("You now", 2016, Griet Op de Beeck), story 'zijn familie geloofde heilig dat doen alsof eigenlijk ook een kunst was' ('his family firmly believed that pretending was actually an art too'), chapter Three

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
Zywa May 18
Steps shimmer beneath

the bushes, a carved staircase --


Once used by tourists.
Novel "Schimmenrijk" ("Realm of shades", 1999, Rosita Steenbeek), chapter 5

Collection "Over"
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