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998 · Dec 2022
[ The universe holds ]
Zywa Dec 2022
The universe holds

me, I hold the universe --


with this very thought.
"Pensées" ("Thoughts", 1657-1662, Blaise Pascal): Par l'espace l'univers me comprend et m'engloutit comme un point; par la pensée je le comprends. - Through space the universe comprehends me and swallows me up like a point; by thought I comprehend the universe.)

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
994 · Jul 2022
[ Company is nice ]
Zywa Jul 2022
Company is nice,

always I want it, always --


it's too much for me.
"Hoog en laag springen - Faxen aan Ger #4" ("Like it or not - Faxing Ger #4", 2021, Nicolien Mizee)

Collection "Out of place"
Zywa Oct 2022
Don't think of yourself!

Join me, you would never want --


me to go alone!
"Tom Poes en de grote Barribal" ("Tom **** and the Mighty Barribal", 1965-1966, Marten Toonder)

Collection "Bearer Toonder"
Zywa Jul 2022
Just close your eyes, dream

that you touch and arouse me --


Then do what you dream.
Collection "DearI"
Zywa Aug 2023
Please come with your Skin

to my Body, the Temple --


of the Sacred Touch.
Poem "Huid" ("Skin", 2023, Johanna Pas)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 20s and 30s"
987 · Jan 2023
[ I enjoy paintings ]
Zywa Jan 2023
I enjoy paintings,

looking at all kinds of things --


that aren't really there.
Collection "The Yellow House Museum"
985 · Jul 2023
[ The audience isn't ]
Zywa Jul 2023
The audience isn't

listening to the concert --


It's background music.
Collection "The drama"
978 · Oct 2023
[ I like the attic ]
Zywa Oct 2023
I like the attic,

sitting in the armchair, in --


front of the window.
Novel "De eeuwige jachtvelden" (1995, "The happy hunting grounds", 1999 Nanne Tepper), End (Fourth book)

Collection "Within the walls"
977 · Sep 2024
[ Mama's big rainbow ]
Zywa Sep 2024
Mama's big rainbow

umbrella keeps me nice and --


dry in the shower.
Poem "In het huis van je vader" ("In your father's house", 2009, Krijn Peter Hesselink)

Collection "SoulSenseSun"
975 · Aug 2023
[ Can love heal my heart ]
Zywa Aug 2023
Can love heal my heart,

wanting to be here with you --


and longing for her?
Novel "The PowerBook" (2000, Jeanette Winterson), chapter "HELP"

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s and 10s"
972 · Aug 2022
[ The harbour bell blocks ]
Zywa Aug 2022
The harbour bell blocks

all men with colourful socks --


in the Northern Docks.
"Noorderdokken" ("Northern Docks", 2004, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer)

Collection "Palace of the Night"
971 · Mar 2023
[ Two chubby maggots ]
Zywa Mar 2023
Two chubby maggots:

hopping around, drilling holes --


in the barren land.
Film "A Voyage to the Moon - In seven parts": flagpole on the moon (1976, Manfred Durniok: NASA footage and music by Oskar Sala on the Mixtur-Trautonium, performed in the Organpark by Peter Pichler on January 14th, 2023)

Collection "org anp ark" #258
970 · Jun 2023
Smiley from Brussels
Zywa Jun 2023
I pick up plants from the street and slow down
Caring with soil, scissors and cotton wool
I slow down and cook, for him, and with him
everything else slows down. I don't do much

At first wilfully, daily exercises
and meditation, my body asked for it
Attention

Esther covered my skin, he caresses
it, he catches my navel lint
Childish games, silly jokes
Giggling like a lama

Cuddling, energy
from the sun behind my clouds
Peace of on and off buttons

The slower ******* and spitting
of the ganglia in my head
No more overdrive
All neural pathways know it
Zhineng Qigong = Wise and Skillful Handling of the Energy of Life

"Guru" = "Weighty" of knowledge, spiritual teacher
"Lama" = "Soul-Mother", "Highest Mother"

On and off buttons: agonists and antagonists, the biochemical signal substances that imitate the effect of a hormone

Overdrive = acceleration of the wheels relative to the engine, by installing an extra gear

For Maria Godschalk

Collection "Bruises"
Zywa Sep 2022
Yes, mwaw hwale re hwoot,

so nice, oh ** mwurt, careful --


ow, you're hurting me!
"Zindelijkheidstraining" ("Toilet training", 1990, Tom Lanoye)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 80s and 90s"
967 · Aug 2024
[ Awkwardly he holds ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Awkwardly he holds

my hand, just like in photos --


from the olden times.
Novel "The Sandcastle" (1957, Iris Murdoch), chapter Twelve

Collection "Unspoken"
967 · Feb 2024
[ 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"
964 · Apr 2023
[ The Spartan women ]
Zywa Apr 2023
The Spartan women,

sitting on the salty shore --


are combing their hair.
Novel "The time of the angels" (1966, Iris Murdoch), § 3

Collection "Unspoken"
964 · Jun 2022
Stroke the soul of my skin
Zywa Jun 2022
I don't look away
from the mirror, my
body that does not look
like the soul of my skin
knows it was
and can still point out
with fingers of desire
and memory eyes

I ****** yours
to touch me
eagerly hesitant
without knowing what
you are doing, going to do
have done, where
you stop, tingling
and devouring

streaming over
me, in me and
worldwide, sea
in sea, soul in soul
heart to heart
sigh in sigh
blood in blood
peace in peace
Collection "Eyes lips chest and belly"
963 · Sep 2019
[ Pulling the curtains ]
Zywa Sep 2019
Pulling the curtains

I open up a day off:


hi bird, hi-i wind!
Like “Marc groet 's morgens de dingen” (“Marc greets things in the morning”, 1928, Paul van Ostaijen)

Health Care Centre of Our Lady, location East, ward B8

Collection "On the fly"
960 · Sep 2023
The Notre-Dame of Paris
Zywa Sep 2023
Notre-Dame, she is quite old: although she may
bury Paris, which has witnessed her birth, one day
But in thousand years or more, Time will make recoil
her heavy body, like a wolf does with a bull
and twist each iron axon, each of her neurones
to gnaw alas, with its blunt tooth, her bones of stones!

Many men will overflow the island in the Seine
to contemplate the barren ruin, the last remains
dreamers, re-reading what Victor Hugo has seen ahead:
- Then they'll think they see the old basilica
as it was, mighty and magnificent, a Gloria
rising up before them like the shadow of a dead!
Poem "Notre-Dame de Paris" (1832, Gérard de Nerval, collection "Odelettes", 1834/1853)

Novel "Notre-Dame de Paris" (1831, Victor Hugo)

Translation contest "The Netherlands translates" (2023)

Collection "Reaching out"
958 · Nov 2022
[ Alas, making love ]
Zywa Nov 2022
Alas, making love

is the worst, so self-conscious --


we are, both of us.
Letter 3, to Theo Peeters, spring 1966 ("A pleasant postumity: letters 1965-1997", 2004, Herman de Coninck)

Collection "Shortages"
955 · Jun 2022
[ Little raindrops tap ]
Zywa Jun 2022
Little raindrops tap

softly, rumble heavily --


down on the fish scales.
"Underneath" (2020, Jasna Veličković), composition for hyperorgan and coils, performed by her in the Organpark on May 20th, 2022 and May 28th, 2022 (on May 20th, 2022 as part 1 of a chain composition by ten composers)

Collection "org anp ark" #215
952 · Apr 2021
Reaching
Zywa Apr 2021
The world a maze
under the nut tree
in this well-arranged garden

Follow a path
learn how it goes
what is important

Travel with strangers
experiencing the secret
with our senses

And reach further
re-create the world
beyond our lives

This is our world
how it was and can be
carefully we reach

For beauty and stories
we reach
for contact

With other lives
we connect
we connect
from heart to heart
Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

Collection “The migration”
952 · Oct 2022
[ There are no treasures ]
Zywa Oct 2022
There are no treasures:

all people are different --


in their own wishes.
#112 "Heer Bommel en de wisselschat" (#112 "Tom **** and the switcher treasure", 1965, Marten Toonder)

Collection "Bearer Toonder"
951 · Jul 2022
[ I unravel us ]
Zywa Jul 2022
I unravel us,

paralysed you are waiting --


until it's over.
"Hoog en laag springen - Faxen aan Ger #4" ("Like it or not - Faxing Ger #4", 2021, Nicolien Mizee)

Collection "Out of place"
950 · May 2022
[ Under the cedar ]
Zywa May 2022
Under the cedar

next to my house is a bench --


for new encounters.
Collection "Without reserve"
949 · Aug 2023
[ We're barbarians ]
Zywa Aug 2023
We're barbarians:

people who destroy what they --


do not understand.
Novel "The PowerBook" (2000, Jeanette Winterson), chapter "OPEN HARD DRIVE"

Collection "May the Might"
Zywa May 2023
Gold chips on the street

can't be real, such a party --


would be pathetic.
943 · May 2022
[ First sounds of the day ]
Zywa May 2022
First sounds of the day,

and my soul already sings --


along with the world.
"Arriving" ("Free Reeds"; Act 1; 2022, Koen Boeijinga), performed by Koen Boeijinga's MOA [Manifestation Of Absence] (orchestra) and Gemma Luz Bosch (*****) in the Organpark on May 27th, 2022

Collection "org anp ark" #211
941 · May 2022
[ The forget-me-not ]
Zywa May 2022
The forget-me-not

on your grave sows on your grave --


more forget-me-nots.
Collection "BloodTrunk"
941 · Dec 2023
[ There is something, It ]
Zywa Dec 2023
There is something, It

is earthly, I sense it, shreds --


of a mystery.
"Ietsism" (the belief that there is Something that transcends everything) - Composition #108 "aardhand" ("groundhand", 2022, Piet-Jan van Rossum) for ensemble Orkest De Ereprijs, performed by Orkest De Ereprijs in the Organpark on December 9th, 2023

Collection "org anp ark" #336
Zywa Apr 2024
The beach would be great

if it did not shine so much --


from the blazing sun.
Poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter" in the children's book "Through the Looking-Glass", chapter 4 (1871, Lewis Carroll)

Collection "Here &Now&"
939 · Oct 2023
[ Everything that we ]
Zywa Oct 2023
Everything that we

humans can touch is sacred --


Sacred Emptiness.
"Desolation Angels" (1965, Jack Kerouac), chapter 1-2-89: the essence of what you can touch remains a mystery

Collection "MistI"
Zywa Nov 2022
She doesn't want to smell

like she does smell now, unwashed --


It's turning men on.
"Farah Mills" (2017, Ivo Victoria)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s and 10s"
937 · Dec 2022
[ At parties I try ]
Zywa Dec 2022
At parties I try

to leave soon, always longing --


for festivity!
"De terugkeer van het nieuwe jaar" ("The return of the new year", 2022, Eva Meijer)

Collection "On the fly"
932 · Aug 2024
[ Evening twilight lays ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Evening twilight lays

intimacy in the world --


tenderness in me.
Poem "Avond" / "VI" ("Evening" / "VI", 1886, Willem Kloos)

Collection "Moist glow"
932 · Mar 2022
[ The earth makes me move ]
Zywa Mar 2022
The earth makes me move,

each day she embraces me --


in another way.
Collection "WoofWoof"
930 · Mar 2023
Thousand-petalled day
Zywa Mar 2023
Thousands of slaves of The Saviour run
bent over to a place to sit, belly to buttock
nose in the back, sections full of light pink
shoulders under the violet
shaved crowns

to open the brain
under sun and moon
to the Great Soul
and to gain self-knowledge
from the mirrors around you

the exchangeable bodies that
under the discipline of loneliness
among silent fellow sufferers
no longer can die
from everyday life's dangers

Everywhere you see yourself
among the hard faces
of armed guards
and you cling to
the changing of the light

the rustle of rain and
scents brought by the wind
"He laughs best who laughs last"
But what kind of laugh is that?
A laugh which is not shared...
"Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo" (CECOT, "Terrorism Confinement Center") in Tecoluca (El Salvador), February 24th, 2023

Crown chakra "Sahasrara" ("Thousand-petalled")

Collection "Between where"
928 · Jul 2022
A furtive visit
Zywa Jul 2022
Here I lie, no respiratory mask
There is a little wind
I get too little air

to talk, no energy
My body is busy
eliminating the virus

I have no strength for anything
don't even fancy nuts or chocolates
just sleep, I would like to sleep

And wake up well rested
In bed next to you. I go too far
I'll only go to sleep after you have left

There are few colours, high veils
no thunderstorm in the air, no birds
From above I see us lying

Our breath is exactly the same
Five meters apart, we are
not really trespassing

I haven't caught your little bird yet
For Maria Godschalk

Social distancing to prevent infection

"Il Decameron" (Boccaccio, Anno 1353), 5th day, 4th story: because of the heat, Caterina is allowed to sleep on the balcony, where she listens to the nightingale; in the morning her father Lizio sees her naked with her friend Ricciardo, holding his nightingale in her hand; Lizio calls his wife to show her what kind of bird Caterina has caught
uccello = bird, usignolo = nightingale

Pier Paolo Pasolini filmed this story in 1971

Collection "It takes a lot of tries to make a début"
927 · Dec 2022
[ I hesitate to ]
Zywa Dec 2022
I hesitate to

address him, so intensely --


wearily he smiles.
"Het Bureau - Plankton" ("The Office - Plankton", 1997, Han Voskuil)

Collection "Not too bad [1974-1989]"
925 · Jul 2019
Empathy for the Stars
Zywa Jul 2019
After our working day we look
at the Beautiful World, where
duties and rules do not apply
and the Stars can shine

We look up to them
We see that it exists
and that is a comfort, especially
if there is something to gossip about

There may be more
than admiration, entertainment
conveniences and wealth, but
that doesn't buy me anything

Certainly not happiness
if one is not as rich
as the Stars are
made by us
Collection “Lilith's Powers” # 58
919 · Aug 2023
[ A stranger falls, and ]
Zywa Aug 2023
A stranger falls, and

as he falls he is breaking --


in into my life.
Poem "Weet nog wel" ("I remember", 2022, Ester Naomi Perquin)

Collection "Truder"
918 · Feb 2024
[ 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
916 · Oct 2023
[ In the neon light ]
Zywa Oct 2023
In the neon light,

shadows appear and vanish --


Strolling nightlife girls.
"Desolation Angels" (1965, Jack Kerouac), chapter 1-2-65: "Neons, Chinese restaurants / coming on - / Girls come by shades"

Collection "MistI"
916 · Apr 2023
[ Slow lava creeps up ]
Zywa Apr 2023
Slow lava creeps up

on you and it swallows you --


There is nothing left.
Novel "Ik ben er niet" ("I'm not there", 2020, Lize Spit), page 374

Collection "Shelter"
915 · Oct 2022
[ The ordinary ]
Zywa Oct 2022
The ordinary

is in slow motion simply --


nothing but beauty.
"Cashapona" (2022, Germaine Sijstermans) for bass clarinet, cello and *****, performed on October 30th, 2022 in the Organpark, by Germaine Sijstermans (bass clarinet), Marcus Kaiser (cello), and Dante Boon (*****)

Collection "org anp ark" #244
915 · Oct 2023
The Bison
Zywa Oct 2023
Mosquitoes may drink my blood
I stay here to enjoy myself
the blood of the moon

the fireflies in the garden
and the whooping children
around a campfire somewhere

...Behind, a freight train rumbles past
...Once the hooves of bison pounded there

My dreams are blind and nameless
They **** on the spot
and eat when I'm away

Maybe it would be easier
without them, but when I see them
asleep, everything is fine

...Behind, a freight train rumbles past
...Once the hooves of bison pounded there
Song "Buffalo Replaced" (2023, Mitski, album "The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We")

Collection "Reaching out"
914 · Jul 2023
[ Would the alehoof and ]
Zywa Jul 2023
Would the alehoof and

creeping-flower wish to flee?


From my weeding hand?
"Als in een spiegel" ("Like in a mirror", 2000, Cor Jellema)

Alehoof and Ranunculus repens

Collection "Skin-contact"
913 · Nov 2022
[ As a priest one serves ]
Zywa Nov 2022
As a priest one serves

in the churches in the hell --


of confessionals.
"Het volgende verhaal" ("The next story", 1991, Cees Nooteboom)

Collection "Low gear"
912 · Jun 2022
Snow White's Death
Zywa Jun 2022
Her neck, I remember
was a round ivory tower
not too short, not too long

Snow-white skin
Snow White her name
Who would not love her!

Oh, her shoulders, firm
and soft her arms and legs
round ******* and hips

straight back, perfect beauty
Magic mirror on the wall
who is beloved by all?

We all wished to know her
and hear words from her mouth
that bear witness to our existence

If she was only there
then I could hope
to love her someday
"Book of the Duchess" (1369, Geoffrey Chaucer), also known as "The Deth of Blaunche"

Collection "The Big Secret"
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