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Zywa Feb 2024
There are mists haunting

over the swampy heathland --


I don't dare go home.
Composition "Part 6" (2013, Alison Isadora), performed by ensemble MAZE in the Organpark on February 11th, 2024

Collection "org anp ark" #372
Feb 2024 · 290
[ Listening seance ]
Zywa Feb 2024
Listening seance:

rubbing hands, clicking tongues, and --


loud shuffling of shoes.
"Deep Listening" - Composition "Wind Horse - 2" (1962, Pauline Oliveros), performed in the Organpark on February 10th, 2024, by ensemble MAZE, with participation of the audience

Collection "org anp ark" #367
Feb 2024 · 415
[ With dry pods and bags ]
Zywa Feb 2024
With dry pods and bags

filled with granules we're rising --


little whirls of wind.
"Deep Listening" - Composition "Wind Horse - 2" (1962, Pauline Oliveros), performed in the Organpark on February 10th, 2024, by ensemble MAZE, with participation of the audience

Collection "org anp ark" #366
Feb 2024 · 116
[ You still live in your ]
Zywa Feb 2024
You still live in your

body, yet I no longer --


find you at home there.
Poem "Oppas" ("Nurse", 1981, Ed Leeflang)

Collection "Mist-I"
Feb 2024 · 318
[ The citizens talk ]
Zywa Feb 2024
The citizens talk

down the lime trees: they're dripping --


honey every year.
Poem "De voorwaarden" ("The conditions", 1991, Ed Leeflang)

City dwellers demand nature without inconveniences

Collection "Willegos"
Feb 2024 · 200
[ The vague liquid pain ]
Zywa Feb 2024
The vague liquid pain

that you can't point out at all --


must be sad feelings.
Poem "Een groene linnenkast" - 16 ("A green linen closet" - 16, 1981, Ed Leeflang)

Collection "Mist-I"
Feb 2024 · 782
[ I have woken up ]
Zywa Feb 2024
I have woken up,

where am I? In an ocean --


of sleeping silence?
Personal transmission-composition "Occam ocean" for orchestra (2015, Éliane Radigue), performed in the Organpark on February 3rd, 2024, by ensemble ONCEIM (L'Orchestre de Nouvelles Créations, Expérimentations, et Improvisations Musicales) and others - @cello

Collection "org anp ark" #353
Feb 2024 · 1.3k
[ Dawn: the world takes on ]
Zywa Feb 2024
Dawn: the world takes on

colours, becomes lifelike, but --


remains elusive.
Personal transmission-composition "Occam ocean" for orchestra (2015, Éliane Radigue), performed in the Organpark on February 3rd, 2024, by ensemble ONCEIM (L'Orchestre de Nouvelles Créations, Expérimentations, et Improvisations Musicales) and others - @orchestra

Collection "org anp ark" #359
Feb 2024 · 919
[ Seawater gently ]
Zywa Feb 2024
Seawater gently

rinses the washed grains of sand --


No flood to be seen.
Personal transmission-composition "Occam ocean" for orchestra (2015, Éliane Radigue), performed in the Organpark on February 3rd, 2024, by ensemble ONCEIM (L'Orchestre de Nouvelles Créations, Expérimentations, et Improvisations Musicales) and others - @orchestra

Collection "org anp ark" #361
Zywa Feb 2024
That's sheep John, Rita's

husband is also called that --


Weird for a person!
Biographical account "Leven met Lidewij" ("Living with Lidewij", 2022, Bert Natter)

Collection "Appearances"
Feb 2024 · 1.1k
[The slowed down breathing ]
Zywa Feb 2024
The slowed down breathing

of the towering water --


walls of the ocean.
Personal transmission-composition "Occam ocean" for orchestra (2015, Éliane Radigue), performed in the Organpark on February 3rd, 2024, by ensemble ONCEIM (L'Orchestre de Nouvelles Créations, Expérimentations, et Improvisations Musicales) and others - @orchestra

Collection "org anp ark" #360
Feb 2024 · 205
[ Daddy, can we leave? ]
Zywa Feb 2024
Daddy, can we leave?

Do you know what's for dinner?


Can I choose it, please?
Biographical account "Leven met Lidewij" ("Living with Lidewij", 2022, Bert Natter)

Collection "On the fly"
Feb 2024 · 162
[ A thought is super- ]
Zywa Feb 2024
A thought is super-

ficial, not so is an act,


an experience.
Passage "Vom 'Reiche der Freiheit' " (#125) im 2. Buch von: "Morgenröte. Gedanken über die moralischen Vorurteile" (Passage "On the 'Realm of freedom' " in book 2 of: "The Dawn of Day - Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality", 1881, Friedrich Nietzsche)

Collection "On the fly"
Feb 2024 · 885
[ I am just floating ]
Zywa Feb 2024
I am just floating

around and almost ready --


to wake up slowly.
Personal transmission-composition "Occam ocean" for orchestra (2015, Éliane Radigue), performed in the Organpark on February 3rd, 2024, by ensemble ONCEIM (L'Orchestre de Nouvelles Créations, Expérimentations, et Improvisations Musicales) and others - @wind section

Collection "org anp ark" #356
Feb 2024 · 1.2k
[ Something is at hand ]
Zywa Feb 2024
Something is at hand,

so I better find a way --


out of my slumber.
Personal transmission-composition "Occam ocean" for orchestra (2015, Éliane Radigue), performed in the Organpark on February 3rd, 2024, by ensemble ONCEIM (L'Orchestre de Nouvelles Créations, Expérimentations, et Improvisations Musicales) and others - @strings

Collection "org anp ark" #355
Feb 2024 · 548
[ We talk searchingly ]
Zywa Feb 2024
We talk searchingly,

confidentially, as if --


we are weaving dreams.
Novel "De verdronkene" (2005, "The Storm" / "The drowned", 2010, Margriet de Moor), § 1-8

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s"
Zywa Feb 2024
Don't keep building dams

in the streams of your feelings --


Flooding is better.
Column "Luister naar de meisjes" ("Listen to the girls", 2024, Eva Meijer), in the NRC of January 16th, 2024

Collection "Stream"
Feb 2024 · 651
[ Behind the curtain ]
Zywa Feb 2024
Behind the curtain

of his music he dances:


the master flautist.
From Orpheus's lyre to the flutes of the *****

Composition for ***** (or harpsichord), SwWV 319, on the theme of "Ballo del granduca" ("The Grand Duke's Ball", 1590, Jan P. Sweelinck), performed on January 27th, 2024 by recorder ensemble The Royal Wind Music in the Organpark (arrangement Hester Groenleer)

Collection "org anp ark" #347
Feb 2024 · 173
[ Wouldn't you feel sorry ]
Zywa Feb 2024
Wouldn't you feel sorry

for normal people who cling --


to being normal?
Novella "De grote wereld" ("The upper world", 2006, Arthur Japin), § 1

Collection "Appearances"
Feb 2024 · 458
[ Next to what was once ]
Zywa Feb 2024
Next to what was once

the farmyard, a kitchen chair --


in the tall wild grass.
Poem "Spreeuwen" - 4 ("Starlings" - 4, 2023, Hans Tentije)

Collection "Over"
Feb 2024 · 150
[ Interiors are ]
Zywa Feb 2024
Interiors are

also the exteriors --


of the residents.
Novel "Buiten is het maandag" ("Outside, it's Monday", 2003, J. Bernlef), §  6-7

Collection "Being my own museum"
Feb 2024 · 294
[ She planned it and said ]
Zywa Feb 2024
She planned it and said

goodbye to each of us, as --


we later found out.
Novel "jl." ("recently" - the title also refers to Juno Linnaarts, 2016, Anjet Daanje), chapter September 23rd, 2011

Collection "Em Brace"
Feb 2024 · 975
[ We don't do any- ]
Zywa Feb 2024
We don't do any-

thing, we avoid rejection --


avoid rapprochement.
Novel "jl." ("recently" - the title also refers to Juno Linnaarts, 2016, Anjet Daanje), chapter November 11th, 1989

Collection "Actively Passive"
Feb 2024 · 433
[ Today, too much is ]
Zywa Feb 2024
Today, too much is

happening, I must pretend --


it is a story.
Novel "Buitenstaanders" ("Outsiders", 1983, Renate Dorrestein), § 3

Collection "Truder"
Feb 2024 · 398
[ Afterwards it is ]
Zywa Feb 2024
Afterwards it is

only vague what it was like:


a passion, a pain.
Novel "Buiten is het maandag" ("Outside, it's Monday", 2003, J. Bernlef), § 8-1

Collection "Over"
Jan 2024 · 613
[ Please be sensible ]
Zywa Jan 2024
Please be sensible!

If all the girls are gorgeous,


let someone else drive.
Novel "Buiten is het maandag" ("Outside, it's Monday", 2003, J. Bernlef), §  1-4

Collection "Moist glow"
Jan 2024 · 263
[ It has made me sad ]
Zywa Jan 2024
It has made me sad

that I cannot remember --


my dream about her.
Novel "Buiten is het maandag" ("Outside, it's Monday", 2003, J. Bernlef), §  7-2

Collection "Moist glow"
Jan 2024 · 179
[ Suddenly it's gone ]
Zywa Jan 2024
Suddenly it's gone:

no more house, just a mountain --


of mosquitoes there.
Novel "jl." ("recently" - the title also refers to Juno Linnaarts, 2016, Anjet Daanje), chapter April 28th, 1986

Collection "No wonder"
Jan 2024 · 268
[ My body may seem ]
Zywa Jan 2024
My body may seem

solid, but it is a cloud --


of floating atoms.
Novel "jl." ("recently" - the title also refers to Juno Linnaarts, 2016, Anjet Daanje), chapter April 28th, 1986

Collection "No wonder"
Jan 2024 · 598
[ Come on, wave your love ]
Zywa Jan 2024
Come on, wave your love,

overflow me with your tide --


Don't ebb off from me.
Song "Je t'aime... moi non plus" ("I love you... me neither", 1969, Serge Gainsbourg), sung with Jane Birkin; sung in 1967 with Brigitte Bardot (released in 1986)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 60s and 70s"
Jan 2024 · 561
[ Between star and night ]
Zywa Jan 2024
Between star and night,

between black skin and white skin --


our fire is burning.
Poem "Yúya Karrabúra" ("Fire is Burning", 2015, Alice Eather)

Collection "SoulSenseSun"
Jan 2024 · 338
[ You change every day ]
Zywa Jan 2024
You change every day,

you don't want me, I miss what --


has not even been.
Song "Ruby Tuesday" (1967, Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones; also sung in 1970 by Melanie [Safka])

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 60s and 70s"
Jan 2024 · 327
[ I meet my neighbours ]
Zywa Jan 2024
I meet my neighbours,

only now, in the dark with --


handfuls of candles.
Power failure
Song "Beautiful people" (1969, Melanie [Safka])

Collection "Shelter"
Jan 2024 · 369
[ Too bad, he only ]
Zywa Jan 2024
Too bad, he only

does his duty, I would like --


him to be a saint.
Novel "Buitenstaanders" ("Outsiders", 1983, Renate Dorrestein), § 3

Collection "No wonder"
Jan 2024 · 209
[ She performs her show ]
Zywa Jan 2024
She performs her show,

spraying at the simpletons --


her tormented looks.
Novel "Buitenstaanders" ("Outsiders", 1983, Renate Dorrestein), § 3

Collection "Actively Passive"
Jan 2024 · 207
[ The stories I tell ]
Zywa Jan 2024
The stories I tell

are too thick, too big, too wide --


You can see the lies.
Autobiographical book "Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation" ("Nasleep: over huwelijk en scheiding", 2012, Rachel Cusk), quoted by Merel Kamp in her article "Karma, lot of eigen schuld? Vertel het maar" ("Karma, fate or own fault? Just tell me"), in the NRC of January 16th, 2024

Collection "Appearances"
Jan 2024 · 256
[ I always get short ]
Zywa Jan 2024
I always get short

of breath when he comes home and --


only pets the dog.
Novel "Buitenstaanders" ("Outsiders", 1983, Renate Dorrestein), § 1

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 80s and 90s"
Jan 2024 · 355
[ After our wedding ]
Zywa Jan 2024
After our wedding

there's just the two of us, now --


we must be happy.
Novel "De verdronkene" (2005, "The Storm" / "The drowned", 2010, Margriet de Moor), § 3-5 and § 3-6

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s"
Jan 2024 · 249
[ Yawn, being sleepy ]
Zywa Jan 2024
Yawn, being sleepy,

I drowse my waking days like --


sleepless, dreamless nights.
Novel "De verdronkene" (2005, "The Storm" / "The drowned", 2010, Margriet de Moor), § 5 Responsorium (Responsory) - Inner dialogue

Collection "Moist glow"
Jan 2024 · 311
[ At most I myself ]
Zywa Jan 2024
At most I myself

catch what I mean, with you it's --


misunderstandings.
Novel "Buitenstaanders" ("Outsiders", 1983, Renate Dorrestein), § 1

Collection "Wean Di"
Jan 2024 · 398
[ I'm a kind of half- ]
Zywa Jan 2024
I'm a kind of half-

human, there are so many --


others I do need.
Novel "Buitenstaanders" ("Outsiders", 1983, Renate Dorrestein), § 1

Collection "Wean Di"
Jan 2024 · 180
[ Swear words jump around ]
Zywa Jan 2024
Swear words jump around

wildly in a steaming cloud --


of squabbling voices.
Composition "Pictures at an Exhibition", part "Limoges. Le marché (La grande nouvelle)" ("Limoges. The Market (The Great News)", 1874, Modest Mussorgski), in an arrangement (2023) by Marc Kaptijn performed in the Organpark by the Amsterdam Wind Quintet and Maarten van der Bijl (*****) on January 21st, 2024

Collection "org anp ark #342"
Jan 2024 · 108
[ The oxen: marching ]
Zywa Jan 2024
The oxen: marching,

heavily armoured they are --


stomping on like knights.
Composition "Pictures at an Exhibition", part "Bydlo" ("Cattle" / "The Oxcart", 1874, Modest Mussorgski), in an arrangement (2023) by Marc Kaptijn performed in the Organpark by the Amsterdam Wind Quintet and Maarten van der Bijl (*****) on January 21st, 2024

Collection "org anp ark #342"
Jan 2024 · 843
[ I've an aversion ]
Zywa Jan 2024
I've an aversion

to fighting and to people --


The fight of my life.
"Martelaarschap: dagboeken 1965-1974" ("Martyrdom: diaries 1965-1974", 2023, Han Voskuil)

Collection "Not too bad [1947-1973]"
Jan 2024 · 261
[ People like to talk ]
Zywa Jan 2024
People like to talk

about the required signposts --


but who is going?
Column "Niemand volgt de richtingaanwijzers nog" ("No one follows the signposts anymore", 2024, Stine Jensen), in de NRC van 12 januari 2024

"Pour une critique de l’économie politique du signe" and "Simulacres et Simulation" ("For a Critique of the Politicval Economy of the Sign", 1972, and "Simulacra & Simulation", 1981, Jean Baudrillard)

Collection "Actively Passive"
Jan 2024 · 741
[ We say goodbye, short ]
Zywa Jan 2024
We say goodbye, short

- long - stop, the signalling code --


of: I think of you.
Novel "jl." ("recently" - the title also refers to the character Juno Linnaarts, 2016, Anjet Daanje), chapters December 23rd, 1973 and December 9th, 1980

Collection "Inmost [1]"
Jan 2024 · 220
[ There's so much to do ]
Zywa Jan 2024
There's so much to do,

without knowing if my life --


is worth what it costs.
"Aphorismen. Gedanken und Meinungen" ("Aphorisms. Thoughts and Opinions", 1895, Emanuel Wertheimer), quoted in the novel "Buitenstaanders" ("Outsiders", 1983, Renate Dorrestein), § 1 - "Das Leben ist selten das wert, was es kostet" ("Life is rarely worth what it costs" / "La vie vaut rarement ce qu'elle coûte")

Collection "Rasping ants"
Jan 2024 · 212
[ Boxes in the wind ]
Zywa Jan 2024
Boxes in the wind,

rolling on, getting one kick --


after the other.
Novel "Maurits en de feiten" ("Maurits and the facts", 1986, Gerrit Krol), § 19

Collection "Actively Passive"
Jan 2024 · 311
[ End of the story ]
Zywa Jan 2024
End of the story,

because she says the sentence:


But I did not cry.
Novella "De grote wereld" ("The upper world", 2006, Arthur Japin), § 9

Collection "Being my own museum"
Jan 2024 · 189
[ You should be yourself ]
Zywa Jan 2024
You should be yourself,

but don't bother anyone --


that's the condition.
Novel "Maurits en de feiten" ("Maurits and the facts", 1986, Gerrit Krol), § 23

Collection "Wean Di"
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