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741 · Jan 2023
[ The dancer, amazed ]
Zywa Jan 2023
The dancer, amazed,

keeps revealing secret doors --


that no one can see.
"Les secrets sont des portes" ("Secrets are doors", 1959, Edmond Jabès)

Collection "Inmost"
740 · Aug 2022
[ The Oracle knows ]
Zywa Aug 2022
The Oracle knows

what I want, that's what she gives --


me as her advice.
Mentorship

"Hoog en laag springen - Faxen aan Ger #4" ("Like it or not - Faxing Ger #4", December 20th, 1999, published 2021, Nicolien Mizee)

Collection "Out of place"
739 · Nov 2023
[ Back in the Garden ]
Zywa Nov 2023
Back in the Garden

of Love, I walk around lost --


among gravestones.
Poem "The Garden of Love" (1789, William Blake), set to music in 2003 by Jacob ter Veldhuis ('Jacob TV'), performed by Lichtbende in the Organpark on November 17th, 2023

Collection "org anp ark" #319
739 · Oct 2023
[ The lightning dances ]
Zywa Oct 2023
The lightning dances

yellowly on the ridges --


It's an event here.
"Desolation Angels" (1965, Jack Kerouac), chapter 1-1-27 (Jack Kerouac spends two months in de lookout shack on Desolation Peak, near Ross Lake in Washington)

Collection "MistI"
738 · Sep 2023
[ They steal her beauty ]
Zywa Sep 2023
They steal her beauty

with compliments, and laugh at --


the mutilation.
Poem "dit spuls die aarde vol" ("the earth is full of it", 2022, Antjie Krog)

Collection "Truder"
738 · Jan 2024
[ 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]"
Zywa Jan 2023
It intrudes, kicks things

upside down and connects me --


to people: music.
Collection "The drama"
736 · Nov 2022
[ In the new country ]
Zywa Nov 2022
In the new country

I follow a friend, stepping --


within his footprints.
"Går efter en vän" ("Walk behind a friend", 2009, Jila Mossaed)

Collection "Specialities"
736 · Feb 2023
[ The famous writer ]
Zywa Feb 2023
The famous writer

never needs that many words --


just: The sea is large.
Maksim Gorki asks Anton Chekhov to describe the Black Sea (1890)

White Island in Lower Lough Erne, near Enniskillen (Northern-Ireland)
"Het Bureau - Het A.P. Beerta-Instituut" ("The Office - The A.P. Beerta-Institute", 1998, Han Voskuil), page 866

Collections "Not too bad [1974-1989]" and "WriteWiser signage"
733 · Mar 2024
[ It is all pastel ]
Zywa Mar 2024
It is all pastel,

the light, the music and I --


this very spring day.
Composition "Sonate per due organi" ("Sonata for two organs"), Muzio Clementi, performed in the Organpark on December 2nd, 2011 by Erwin Wieringa and Theo Hellema
Walls in pastel colours, stained-glass windows

Collection "org" #18
733 · Mar 2019
[ My heart beats action ]
Zywa Mar 2019
My heart beats action,

so my mind follows, almost –


forgetting to breathe.
The heart is made for action, which makes it hard for the mind to be quiet.

Collection "Wean Di"
733 · Jun 2023
[ The buried people ]
Zywa Jun 2023
The buried people

are present in the silence --


rustling in the wind.
Collection "Greeting from before"
731 · Jul 2022
[ I am my angel ]
Zywa Jul 2022
I am my angel,

who will always follow me --


who helps me in need.
Song "Jimenez" (2012, Maarten van Roozendaal)

Collection "Appearances"
730 · Nov 2023
[ Chapel in the woods ]
Zywa Nov 2023
Chapel in the woods:

inside, the flames are flaring --


autumnal silence.
Chapel 'the Sacred Oak' (on the Beerze, near Oirschot, since the 15th century)

Collection "Greeting from before"
729 · May 2024
[ India is much ]
Zywa May 2024
India is much

more than chaos: through and through --


logical chaos.
Novel "Shalimar the Clown" (2005, Salman Rushdie), chapter India - 'India is chaos making sense'
728 · Dec 2022
[ You are beautiful ]
Zywa Dec 2022
You are beautiful,

taste it! It is on my tongue --


it's kissing your lips.
"om jou" ("about you", 2002, Rozalie Hirs)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s and 10s"
727 · Feb 2023
[ In stories about ]
Zywa Feb 2023
In stories about

the past we read how people --


looked back at the time.
"Het Bureau - Het A.P. Beerta-Instituut" ("The Office - The A.P. Beerta-Institute", 1998, Han Voskuil), page 598

Collection "Not too bad [1974-1989]"
726 · Aug 2022
[ I am dizzy high ]
Zywa Aug 2022
I am dizzy high

in the sky, I have no hold --


other than a rose.
"Nur eine Rose als Stütze" ("Only a rose as a hold", 1959, Hilde Domin)

Collection "VacantVoid"
726 · Jun 2022
[ When you wrote my name ]
Zywa Jun 2022
When you wrote my name

in the sand I wrote your name --


nicely over it.
Collection "Eyes lips chest and belly"
725 · Jun 2023
[ She looks at the child ]
Zywa Jun 2023
She looks at the child

with love and understanding --


It grows right away.
Novel "De andere school - De geschiedenis van een verraad" ("The other school - The history of a betrayal", 1949, Simon Vestdijk), I-3, page 224

Collection "Inmost"
Zywa Apr 2022
Blue lights, pink answers,

tomfoolery all about --


Feel free to join us!
For Valentina 'Madam' Bruno

"We are not alone" (1983, Frank Zappa, album "The Man From Utopia")

Collection "Greeting from before"
725 · Aug 2022
[ A day without wine ]
Zywa Aug 2022
A day without wine,

two glasses of wine at most --


just three large glasses.
"ik heb vandaag gewandeld" ("I went for a walk today", 2008, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer)

Collection "Palace of the Night"
724 · Nov 2022
[ Saturday: bags-day ]
Zywa Nov 2022
Saturday: bags-day.

Groceries, sport, and ******* --


The day of unrest.
"Vrije tijd" ("Leisure", 2022, Ellen Deckwitz)

Collection "Death on Cast"
724 · Feb 2022
[ I do not dare yet ]
Zywa Feb 2022
I do not dare yet,

I wait and leave it to chance --


which does not arise.
"Binnen de huid" ("Inside the skin", 2009, Han Voskuil)

Collection "Not too bad"
721 · Jan 2023
[ After a few years ]
Zywa Jan 2023
After a few years,

his love is dull, his smell not --


pleasant anymore.
"Verwachtingen" ("Expectations", 2022, Thomas Heerma van Voss)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 20s and 30s"
719 · Jun 2023
[ It takes me a lot ]
Zywa Jun 2023
It takes me a lot

of time to properly show --


my inner beauty.
Self-expression / No-makeup look

Collection "Different times"
717 · Apr 2023
[ The river bulges ]
Zywa Apr 2023
The river bulges

up to the edge, I'm afraid --


must see it myself.
Bundel "On living on [2]"
716 · Oct 2023
At the gates
Zywa Oct 2023
Are you an angel, am I a dog?
Are you from heaven and I from hell?
Or are you a dog, my dog?
And will we go to hell together?

Where are you taking me?
Where am I taking you?
Why do you want to love me?
What can I ever give you?

The more you love me
the more I have to
betray your love, tear it apart
like a dog at the gate

The more you believe in me, the more
I'll bite back until your love is dead
at the gates of heaven
or the gates of hell
Song "I'm Your Man" (2023, Mitski, album "The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We")

Collection "Reaching out"
716 · Dec 2021
[ What I meant to say ]
Zywa Dec 2021
What I meant to say

carefully, in my letter,


I have omitted.
"Wie zwijgt" ("Silence is", 2021, Ellen Deckwitz)

Collection "Mist-I"
716 · Jun 2023
[ Your despair against ]
Zywa Jun 2023
Your despair against

my hope, nose to nose, only --


a door in between.
After a rejected asylum application
Film "Die middag" ("That afternoon", 2023, Nafiss Nia)

Collection "Between where"
714 · Apr 2023
Stinking remix
Zywa Apr 2023
No minor issue can be made
of the stinking discomfort
my body has become
because of the remix with pills
trying out
better versions of me

With a mouthful of Latin
the doctor lets everyone
speechless with bated breath
in the danger zone
of my sweat and gases
have a look

into the cold beak
between my legs
There I lie
thinking of the cloud
of friends around my bed
in which I relieve my soul
For Maria Godschalk

Collection "On living on [1]"
713 · Dec 2022
[ The dying man gets ]
Zywa Dec 2022
The dying man gets

married, the ring binds his name --


to the newborn child.
"La mano del malato povero" ("The hand of the poor sick man", 1917, Luigi Pirandello)

Collection "Being my own museum"
712 · Feb 2023
[ I surrender and ]
Zywa Feb 2023
I surrender and

dance, at home, across the room --


singing with my arms.
On January 21, 2023 Giulio Tosti improvises on the Verschueren ***** in the Organpark, under the title "Nebula"

Collection "org anp ark" #266
711 · Apr 2024
[ It's a merry day ]
Zywa Apr 2024
It's a merry day,

we dance on the earth *****:


feet full of music.
Composition "Velocities (Moto Perpetuo)" for marimba (1990, Joseph Schwantner), performed in the Organpark on March 15th, 2024 by Tomasz Herisz - Tatiana Koleva calls the marimba an earth-*****

Collection "anp" #176
710 · Jul 2022
[ I don't join in, I ]
Zywa Jul 2022
I don't join in, I

don't live like the others do --


I don't live, they think.
"Hoog en laag springen - Faxen aan Ger #4" ("Like it or not - Faxing Ger #4", 2021, Nicolien Mizee)

Collection "Out of place"
710 · May 2024
[ I'm expectant and ]
Zywa May 2024
I'm expectant and

I'm ready to write it down:


the northern lights, there!
Poem "Mevrouw Despina ziet noorderlicht" ("Mrs. Despina sees northern lights", 2008, Marjoleine de Vos)

Collection "Unseen"
709 · Jul 2022
[ I'm caught in a net ]
Zywa Jul 2022
I'm caught in a net,

not in your, but in my net --


of expectations.
Collection "DearI"
709 · Oct 2023
[ On the peak I dream ]
Zywa Oct 2023
On the peak I dream

of La Vie Parisienne --


in Tijuana.
"Desolation Angels" (1965, Jack Kerouac), chapter 1-1-25 (Jack Kerouac spends two months in de lookout shack on Desolation Peak, near Ross Lake in Washington)

Collection "MistI"
709 · Feb 2023
[ High in the mountains ]
Zywa Feb 2023
High in the mountains:

the silence, the absence, most --


of all of myself.
Story "Edith Wengler" (2020, Jens Christian Grøndahl)

Collection "Inmost"
709 · Apr 2022
[ The news, every day ]
Zywa Apr 2022
The news, every day:

fires are burning in the streets --


right out of the hearts.
For Valentina 'Madam' Bruno
Frank Zappa Tribute band "2000 Motels"

Song "Trouble Every Day" (1965, The Mothers of Invention; album "Freak Out!", 1966)

Collection "Low gear"
708 · Aug 2023
[ It's a quiet day ]
Zywa Aug 2023
It's a quiet day.

I'm standing at the window --


contemplating rain.
"The Queen of the Tambourine" (1991, Jane Gardam), § April 12th (1990)

Collection "VacantVoid"
705 · Jun 2022
Stroke the skin of my soul
Zywa Jun 2022
Are you coming, today
I like to look at you again
laugh with you
and listen to you

Come, walk around
in my house, let me
look at you, the step aside
the tension of your buttocks

and your lips
that will kiss me
your hands that are allowed
to do everything I long for

I will not ask too much from you
you don't have to commit yourself
not for longer than I live
not to what you fear

You don't have to take care of me
just leave me alone
when I'm sick
It's enough

that you think of me
Collection "Eyes lips chest and belly"
705 · Jun 2022
[ The grand narratives ]
Zywa Jun 2022
The grand narratives

didn't really happen that way --


they are lies, true lies.
Collection "Secrets & Believers"
704 · Nov 2023
[ I said what I thought ]
Zywa Nov 2023
I said what I thought

I knew about dust, that it --


does not turn to dust.
Poem "stof" (2008, "dust", 2011, Ronelda Kamfer)

Collection "Germ Substance"
703 · Dec 2022
[ So you do love him ]
Zywa Dec 2022
So you do love him,

you really love him, so much --


that you admit it?
"Lontano", §4 ("Far away", 1902, Luigi Pirandello)

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
701 · Oct 2022
[ Storm, I am awake ]
Zywa Oct 2022
Storm, I am awake

and I hear the stars stamping --


in the night stables.
"II. Skärgård på hösten - Stormen" ("II. Archipelago in the autumn - Storm", 1954, Tomas Tranströmer)

Collection "Germ Substance"

Collection "Bearer Toonder"
701 · Jan 2024
[ At regular times ]
Zywa Jan 2024
At regular times

a message comes, stating: this --


connection exists.
Old computer communication
Also applies to acquaintances

Novel "Een Fries huilt niet" ("A Frisian does not cry", 1980, Gerrit Krol), chapter 2.4

Collection "Rasping ants"
701 · Aug 2019
I am free
Zywa Aug 2019
Whatever comes over
as desire, only briefly
sticks to my experience
how relative it is

I can live, I am free
from deficiencies, I do not suffer

from pain, passion or troubles
not from the chaos of love
or ambition, I don't wait to see
what I get thrown

I am too good for that
my friends tell me too

I follow my interests
and that's not the way
of motherhood
and high expectations

but that of the beauty
of you name it

in which I am silently absorbed
One thought
without thinking
of anything else
Collection “It takes a lot of tries to make a début”
700 · Feb 2024
[ The ground beneath her ]
Zywa Feb 2024
The ground beneath her

feet has taken her, the earth --


whose praises I sang.
Novel "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" (1999, Salman Rushdie) - Orpheus

Song "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" (2000, lyrics Salman Rushdie, music U2, album "All That You Can't Leave Behind")

Collection "Low gear [2]"
700 · Nov 2023
The sacrifice
Zywa Nov 2023
The ritual after work
in the dark at the end
of the evening twilight

The dim light of the low clouds
in 1883, when the nights in the country
were still black

The farmer stoops
poking a dry smell
from the weeds of the day

It lingers
in a plume of smoke
above the sparks
Painting "Onkruid verbrandende boer" ("Peasant burning weeds"), 1883, Vincent van Gogh

Collection "Greeting from before"
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