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Zywa 13h
Traces and socks, the

treasure somewhere in the field:


softly disappeared.
Poem "Lemen stilte" ("Clay silence", 2025, Juliën Holtrigter), final poem of the collection "De weg naar huis" ("The road home")

Collection "Stream"
Zywa 13h
His hands hovering

above me like birds of prey --


Lamps in his glasses.
Surgery

Poem "The Egg" - 2 (1967, Louise Glück)

Collection "Stream"
Zywa 1d
Awake all night long

since I heard the door bell ring --


Anyone in need?
Poem "Visitors from Abroad" - 4 (2013, Louise Glück)

Collection "Stream"
Zywa 1d
We're sailing through time,

just we and the two people --


we have been before.
Poem "Sonnet 152" (2008, Ingmar Heytze)

Collection "Stream"
Zywa 2d
All my space travels

are tragic, going so far --


and getting nowhere.
Poem "Testpiloot" ("Test pilot", 2012, Ingmar Heytze)

Collection "Stream"
Zywa 2d
It's hailing thick ice

bullets and the clouds beat tens --


of thousands of drums.
Novella "De heilige Antonio" ("The Saint of the Impossible" / "Saint Antonio", 1998, Arnon Grunberg), chapter 15

Collection "Stream"
Zywa 3d
We're very busy,

so we miss you extra now --


by not missing you.
Arjan Berkhuysen and Anemoon Elzinga about missing their son Mees who died in an accident (interview by Kim Bos in the NRC of May 20th, 2025)

Collection "Being my own museum"
Zywa 3d
Being alone is

nice, my experiences --


resonate again.
Song "Aftertones" (1976, Janis Ian, album "Aftertones")

Collection "Being my own museum"
Zywa 4d
Is there still any

room for things that reappear --


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

Collection "Stream"
Zywa 4d
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 5d
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 5d
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 6d
You know the feeling

of not belonging, being --


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

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
Zywa 6d
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 7d
Steps shimmer beneath

the bushes, a carved staircase --


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

Collection "Over"
Zywa 7d
The Chinese is new,

but its name in characters --


is old: Dry Cleaner's.
Short stories "Gij nu" ("You now", 2016, Griet Op de Beeck), story 'terwijl hij zich probeerde voor te doen als mens onder de mensen' ('while trying to pose as a human being among humans'), chapter Four

Collection "Over"
May 17 · 153
[ In narrow alleys ]
Zywa May 17
In narrow alleys,

people cling close together --


escaping the sun.
Collection "Local interest"
May 17 · 146
[ Do create something ]
Zywa May 17
Do create something

beautiful, just practise and --


pay close attention.
For Lotte W and Paul J, with a photo of Paul ink-spraying a drawing with Indian ink (December 15th, 1985, Beek [Berg en Dal])

Collection "Local interest"
May 16 · 76
[ Happiness: a word ]
Zywa May 16
Happiness: a word

of adults, it's a word that --


hinders happiness.
Novel "the Passion" (1987, Jeanette Winterson), chapter 1 the Emperor

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
Zywa May 16
Out of my nightmare,

I wake up in the anxious --


dream that is the world.
Novel "Lighthousekeeping" (2004, Jeanette Winterson), chapter Tenant of the sun

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
May 15 · 54
[ It's not permanent ]
Zywa May 15
It's not permanent,

yet happiness does last long --


as a memory.
Aphorism by Karel Boullart: Geluk is een kort genot en een lange herinnering (Happiness is a short pleasure and a long memory)

Collection "Stall"
Zywa May 15
Next to us, they fall

silent for a while, busy --


rewinding their thoughts.
Collection of family stories "Gezinsverpakking" ("Family package", 2024, 'De Chabotten'), story "Hier, ergens" ("Here, somewhere", Sebastiaan Chabot)

1. Re-flecting
2. For lack of topics of conversation, repeating oneself

Collection "Stall"
Zywa May 14
I can't keep up with

him, he walks fast, his body --


is made for crutches.
Novel "Reddende engel" ("Saviour", 2017, Renate Dorrestein), chapter March 11th 19:15

Collection "Old sore"
Zywa May 14
Did something go wrong

in this phone call? I don't know.


I don't think so. Right?
Novel "Zeven soorten honger" ("Seven kinds of hunger", 2016, Renate Dorrestein), part Tuesday, chapter Five

Collection "Old sore"
Zywa May 13
Losing weight: fighting

seven dragons, seven kinds --


of being hungry.
Novel "Zeven soorten honger" ("Seven kinds of hunger", 2016, Renate Dorrestein), part Monday, chapter Four

Hunger of the eye (images of food), the nose (smells), the ear (eating and cooking sounds, talking about food), the mouth (the activity of eating), the head (conditioning to eat), the stomach (low blood sugar), the heart (emptiness)

Collection "Old sore"
Zywa May 13
Would you lose weight if

there's a deposit of your --


full year's salary?
Novel "Zeven soorten honger" ("Seven kinds of hunger", 2016, Renate Dorrestein), part Monday, chapter One

Collection "Old sore"
May 12 · 299
[ Come into my arms ]
Zywa May 12
Come into my arms,

leave your body, discover --


the soul of your soul.
Composition "10 textures and 3 chorales" (2025, Amarante Nat) for hyperorgan, performed on May 10th, 2025 in the Organpark by Amarante Nat

Collection "org anp ARK" #115
May 12 · 53
[ Vowels fall away ]
Zywa May 12
Vowels fall away:

in my ears the reveries --


come in faltering.
Composition "Eight Whiskus" ("Eight whistling haikus", 1984, John Cage) for singing voice, version for violin in 1985, performed on May 10th, 2025 in the Organpark by Amarante Nat (singing voice) and Natálie Kulina (violin)

The text is Cage's adaptation of haikus by Chris Mann (with the computer program Mesolist)

Collection "org anp ARK" #115
May 11 · 43
[ If no one comforts ]
Zywa May 11
If no one comforts,

do it yourself: Munchausen --


demonstrated how.
Text "De vele gedaanten van troost" ("The many guises of consolation"), contribution by Renate Dorrestein to the catalogue of the exhibition "Troost, overleving en bezwering" ("Consolation, survival and spell", 2014, Maja van Hall and Roesja Trimbos), included in her collection "Dagelijks werk - Een schrijversleven" ("Daily work - A writer's life", 2018)

Collection "Old sore"
Zywa May 11
There's always comfort,

whatever sorrow you have:


there's mashed potatoes!
Novel "Heartburn" (1983, Nora Ephron)

Collection "Within the walls"
May 10 · 182
[ A day at the beach ]
Zywa May 10
A day at the beach,

autumn does something to me --


but I don't know what.
Poem "De dood dook op vermomd als sinterklaas" ("Death appeared disguised as Santa Claus",  Bart Chabot)

Collection "Moist glow"
Zywa May 10
While withy branches

tap tick tack in the puddles -


the bells are ringing.
Poem "Bristol" (1945, John Betjeman)

Change-ringing:
1  2  2  4  4  5  5  3  3  1  1
2  1  4  2  5  4  3  5  1  3  2
3  4  1  5  2  3  4  1  5  2  3
4  3  5  1  3  2  1  4  2  5  4
5  5  3  3  1  1  2  2  4  4  5

Collection "Moist glow"
Zywa May 9
The wind around the

house is restless, I lie still --


but I am restless.
Collection "Local traffic"
Zywa May 9
Everything goes well

the way it's going, there is --


no final judgement.
Collection "Local traffic"
May 8 · 61
[ Eighty or eighty ]
Zywa May 8
Eighty or eighty?

Their eighty is old, but I --


am not one of them.
Collection "Local inconveniences"
May 8 · 55
[ We are doing well ]
Zywa May 8
We are doing well,

we are not afraid of death --


only of decay.
Collection "Local inconveniences"
Zywa May 7
A house always gets

all kinds of defects, well, we --


just live around them.
Collection of family stories "Gezinsverpakking" ("Family package", 2024, 'De Chabotten'), story "Lieve chaos" ("Dear chaos", Maurits Chabot)

Collection "Home sea"
Zywa May 7
I park and get out

at the bottom of the **** --


The wind blows my hair.
Novel "Luister" ("Listen", 2023, Sacha Bronwasser), part III, Flo and M. 1987-1989

Collection "Home sea"
May 6 · 69
[ Just for a moment ]
Zywa May 6
Just for a moment

you caress my face, and yet --


it lasts a long time.
Novel "Luister" ("Listen", 2023, Sacha Bronwasser), part III, Flo and M. 1987-1989

Collection "Glimpsed"
Zywa May 6
When someone likes me,

it always feels to me like --


a virtue of his.
Novel (roman à clef) "L'invitée" (1943, "She came to stay" / "The Invitee", 1949, Simone de Beauvoir), part 2, chapter 5

Collection "Glimpsed"
May 5 · 128
[ Our eternal love ]
Zywa May 5
Our eternal love

started to blow and then it --


flew out of the bed.
Song "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (1976, Blue Öyster Cult, Donald Roeser [Buck Dharma]), album "Agents of Fortune"

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 60s and 70s"
Zywa May 5
I'm not free to go

into the woods, there's a free --


couple mating there.
Column "Vrijers" ("Lovers", 1975, Louis Paul Boon), in daily newspaper Vooruit (July 24th, 1975)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 60s and 70s"
May 4 · 51
Drone
Zywa May 4
If I were to fly forward
with my intuition, beyond the green
of the strawberry fields and the rainbow
stripes of the tulips near Amsterdam

over the transience of everything
far enough for an overview
and a glimpse of the Big
Secret of love in life

would I know better
what is good for me
or do I know anyway
and do I dare to trust myself?
For Vanessa V, who turns 23

Collection "The Big Secret"
May 4 · 126
[ Everyone's busy ]
Zywa May 4
Everyone's busy,

me too, if I don't take care --


and forget myself.
Collection "The Big Secret"
Zywa May 3
You're angry. No way.

You are! You quarrel, again --


you contradict me!
Novel "Zolang er leven is" ("As long as there is life", 2004, Renate Dorrestein), part 3, Winter, chapter Zekerheid (Certainty)

Collection "Old sore"
Zywa May 3
She took the blame and

between them arose a wall --


of elusive darkness.
Novel "Het duister dat ons scheidt" (2003, "The darkness that separates us", Renate Dorrestein), part 3, 'Achttien' ('Eighteen' years old), chapter 'IJ is een ijspegel' ('Y is an ijspegel [icicle]')

Collection "Old sore"
Zywa May 2
Children wonder what

it would be like to be dead --


but not: to be old.
Essay "Laat me niet alleen" ("Don't leave me alone", 2008, Renate Dorrestein), chapter "Step Six: Let's face our fears"

Collection "Old sore"
May 2 · 60
[ Am I as good a ]
Zywa May 2
Am I as good a

friend, a lover, a driver --


as I think I am?
Novel "Zolang er leven is" ("As long as there is life", 2004, Renate Dorrestein), part 3, Winter, chapter Spoken (Ghosts)

Collection "Old sore"
Zywa May 1
My birthplace: a bed,

actually, I happen --


to know where on earth.
Childhood memories "Het warmtefort" ("The warmth fortress", 2022, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld), chapter Zetpoters (Seedlings)

Collection "Germ Substance"
Zywa May 1
Sometimes a child walks

in the hallway during class --


wearing the *** chain.
Childhood memories "Het warmtefort" ("The warmth fortress", 2022, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld), chapter De gladneuzen (The simple nosed bats)

Collection "Germ Substance"
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