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Jun 2024 · 573
[ In the beautiful ]
Zywa Jun 2024
In the beautiful

merging of lovers, love turns --


out to be self-love.
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar >> Bisnaga] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 3: Glory, chapter 15

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 317
[ In his dream he gropes ]
Zywa Jun 2024
In his dream he gropes

for her and the night also --


seeks her hiding-place.
Poetic fictional essay "The beauty of the husband" (2001, Anne Carson), Tango XIII
Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s"
Zywa Jun 2024
Isn't this thought of mine

a line of verse, suddenly --


revealing something?
Poetic fictional essay "The beauty of the husband" (2001, Anne Carson), Tango XXII **** ludens

Collections "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s" and "A profession"
Jun 2024 · 160
[ What people work on ]
Zywa Jun 2024
What people work on,

but also what they forget --


determines future.
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar >> Bisnaga] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 2: Exile, chapter 11

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 248
[ The pamphlets are blank ]
Zywa Jun 2024
The pamphlets are blank,

that is their message, surely --


it's commonly known.
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar >> Bisnaga] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 2: Exile, chapter 11

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 444
[ There is evidence ]
Zywa Jun 2024
There is evidence

of what I had and did: signs --


of my existence.
Poem "Tussen wolken en aarde de tekens" ("Between clouds and earth the signs", 1997, Willem van Toorn)

Collection "Being my own museum"
Jun 2024 · 342
[ After the defeat ]
Zywa Jun 2024
After the defeat,

his doubts buzz around him like --


a mosquito cloud.
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar >> Bisnaga] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 1: Birth, chapter 8

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 627
[ Perfect images ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Perfect images,

captured, just for a moment --


Already passed by.
Film "Les magnétiques" ("The magnetics" / "The audiotapes", 2021, Vincent Maël Cardona)

Collection "On the fly"
Jun 2024 · 479
[ The farewell party ]
Zywa Jun 2024
The farewell party

is especially festive --


for those who can stay.
Film "Les magnétiques" ("The magnetics" / "The audiotapes", 2021, Vincent Maël Cardona)

Collection "Em Brace"
Jun 2024 · 391
[ Divine help is for ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Divine help is for

young people, and then they have --


to do it themselves.
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar >> Bisnaga] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 1: Birth, chapter 5

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 278
[ Words are for the word- ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Words are for the word-

people, she says, you are free --


to just do your job.
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar >> Bisnaga] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 1: Birth, chapter 4

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 361
[ You'll live long enough ]
Zywa Jun 2024
You'll live long enough

to celebrate successes --


and suffer failures.
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar >> Bisnaga] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 1: Birth, chapter 1

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 251
[ Characters, even ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Characters, even

lifelike, are only alive --


within the story.
End of the novel "Quichotte" (2019, Salman Rushdie), part 3, chapter 21

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 290
[ Farewell, time to go ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Farewell, time to go.

Walking to their home, she cries --


and keeps looking back.
Epic "Ilias" ("Troy",  750 BC, Homerus), book 6, line 494-496 - Andromache and Hector

Collection "Moist glow"
Jun 2024 · 338
[ He gave me a book ]
Zywa Jun 2024
He gave me a book

with an x in it, well, can --


an x be trusted?
Poetic fictional essay "The beauty of the husband" (2001, Anne Carson), Tango V

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s"
Jun 2024 · 368
[ The monk is thinking ]
Zywa Jun 2024
The monk is thinking

about the numerous forms --


of lack of knowledge.
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 1: Birth, chapter 1

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa Jun 2024
The grey langurs screech

in the main city temple --


and bang the clappers.
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 1: Birth, chapter 2

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 448
[ I get up, the day ]
Zywa Jun 2024
I get up, the day

blows towards me, letting me --


converge with myself.
Poem "Samen" ("Converging" [with ourselves], 2023, Astrid Arns)

Collection "SoulSenseSun"
Jun 2024 · 240
[ The gigantic wheels ]
Zywa Jun 2024
The gigantic wheels

of light emerge from the sea --


like super spaceships.
Column "For Your Information" by ***** Ley in Galaxy magazine, published in August 1962, included in the collection "***** Ley's For Your Information: On Earth and in the Sky" (1967), about the 'Wheels of Poseidon', plankton-patterns of acoustic pressure waves in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf

Story "A Meeting with Medusa" - § 5. The Wheels of Poseidon (1971, Arthur C. Clarke)

Collection "Held/True"
Jun 2024 · 182
[ I am curious ]
Zywa Jun 2024
I am curious

and break the glass, it turns out --


to be an alarm.
Short story "The Sentinel" (1951, Arthur C. Clarke)

Collection "Human excess"
Jun 2024 · 496
[ There the waxing Earth ]
Zywa Jun 2024
There the waxing Earth

is low in the sky, lying --


in its starry crib.
Short story "The Sentinel" (1951, Arthur C. Clarke)

Collection "Human excess"
Jun 2024 · 208
[ Oh dear, the mother ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Oh dear, the mother

of all earworms completely --


took over his brain.
Short story "The Ultimate Melody" (1957, Arthur C. Clarke)

Collection "Human excess"
Jun 2024 · 906
[ Well, is man still in ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Well, is man still in

the cradle of Earth? Would it --


predict anything?
Comment in a letter from Konstantin Tsiolkovsky from 1911: "Planyeta yest' kolybyel razuma, no nyelzya vyechno zhit' v kolybyeli" ("The planet is the cradle of the mind, but you cannot live in the cradle forever" >> "Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever [The solar system becomes our kindergarten]")

**** sapiens has been around for 300,000 years

Collection "Human excess"
Jun 2024 · 237
[ We don't say much, we ]
Zywa Jun 2024
We don't say much, we

already understood each --


other in our dreams.
Composition "Dreamleaves" / "Traumblätter" (2007, Robert Nasveld), for one piano four hands, performed by Corien van den Berg and Niek de Vente, in the Organpark on May 31st, 2024 - 6. "Dé-jà-entendu dream"

Collection "org anp ARK" #13
Jun 2024 · 127
[ Restless little dreams ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Restless little dreams

keep spinning head over heels --


splashing all the time.
Composition "Dreamleaves" / "Traumblätter" (2007, Robert Nasveld), for one piano four hands, performed by Corien van den Berg and Niek de Vente, in the Organpark on May 31st, 2024 - 1. "Falling asleep restlessly", 3. "Dream of the girl at the spinning wheel"

Collection "org anp ARK" #12
Jun 2024 · 465
[ In the empty hall ]
Zywa Jun 2024
In the empty hall,

standing next to her suitcase --


mum waits, and she cries.
Retrospective "Autobiografie van een flat" ("Autobiography of an apartment", 2024, Otto de Kat)

Collection "After the festivities"
Jun 2024 · 260
[ I leave the light on ]
Zywa Jun 2024
I leave the light on,

I'm afraid of the darkness --


here, inside my head.
Poem "na-" ("thought-", 2008, Lidy van Marissing)

Collection "Within the walls"
Jun 2024 · 100
[ We are talking, then ]
Zywa Jun 2024
We are talking, then

she suddenly sinks into --


a deep thinking hole.
Poem "Afdaling" ("Descent", 2008, Lidy van Marissing)

Collection "Within the walls"
Jun 2024 · 170
[ He thinks he knows who ]
Zywa Jun 2024
He thinks he knows who

he is, indulging himself --


in his fantasy.
Opera scene "Imaginations - I" (1978/2022, Robert Nasveld), by Tobias Greenhalgh (baritone) and Chris Buckman (piano) performed in the Organpark on May 31st, 2024

Collection "org anp ARK" #15
Zywa Jun 2024
There is a strange smell

in the city, of olives --


so it's not a dream.
Poem "over het werkelijkheidsgehalte van de werkelijkheid" ("about the level of reality", 2023, Erik Bindervoet)

Collection "Truder"
Jun 2024 · 100
[ What a theatre ]
Zywa Jun 2024
What a theatre!

Would he have any idea --


who he is today?
Melodrama "Imaginations - II" (1985/2023, Robert Nasveld), by Tobias Greenhalgh (baritone), Chris Buckman (piano) and a doll performed in the Organpark on May 31st, 2024

Collection "org anp ARK" #18
Jun 2024 · 354
[ Underwater ice ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Underwater ice

solidly reflects colours --


into the deep sea.
Readapted versions of the composition "The Spectral *****" (2024, Maria W. Horn & Mats Erlandsson), performed on the hyperorgan by Maria W. Horn and Mats Erlandsson in the Organpark on May 29th, 2024; light scenography by Zalán Szakács

Collection "org anp ARK" #8
Zywa Jun 2024
The ice cracks and squeaks,

because it does hurt to melt --


and take on colour.
Readapted versions of the composition "The Spectral *****" (2024, Maria W. Horn & Mats Erlandsson), performed on the hyperorgan by Maria W. Horn and Mats Erlandsson in the Organpark on May 29th, 2024; light scenography by Zalán Szakács

Collection "org anp ARK" #10
May 2024 · 152
[ Squadrons fly overhead ]
Zywa May 2024
Squadrons fly overhead,

without the slightest shadow --


on anyone's eyes.
Composition "Deviations" (2024, Casimir Geelhoed), for hyperorgan, performed by Casimir Geelhoed in the Organpark on May 29th, 2024, with a light show by Zalán Szakács

Collection "org anp ARK" #6
May 2024 · 307
[ Everyone sits still ]
Zywa May 2024
Everyone sits still,

yet there are shadows walking --


around on the walls.
Light scenography by Zalán Szakács at the concert of Maria W. Horn and Mats Erlandsson in the Organpark on May 29th, 2024 (a form of sound and light show - "Son et lumière")

Collection "org anp ARK" #11
May 2024 · 439
[ I'm a sane person ]
Zywa May 2024
I'm a sane person,

but out of love I believe --


in some afterlife.
Novel "Quichotte" (2019, Salman Rushdie), part 3, chapter 21

Collection "Low gear"
May 2024 · 393
[ The light at the end ]
Zywa May 2024
The light at the end

of the tunnel is my hope:


heaven anyway.
Novel "Quichotte" (2019, Salman Rushdie), part 3, chapter 21

Collection "Low gear"
May 2024 · 181
[ A photo: I'm six ]
Zywa May 2024
A photo: I'm six,

in the garden I bury --


a box with secrets.
Poem "dood in die familie" (2008, "death in the family", 2011, Ronelda Kamfer)

Collection "Glimpsed"
May 2024 · 278
[ The Mystic Lamb moves ]
Zywa May 2024
The Mystic Lamb moves

him much, so I keep looking --


at his emotion.
Painting "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb", 12 panels / Ghent Altarpiece (1432, Hubert en Jan van Eyck)

Article "(Aan) Mannen e-mailen over *** pak. Is dat nuttig werk?" ("Emailing men about their suits. Is that useful work?", 2024, Walter van den Berg, in the NRC of May 25th)

Collection "Glimpsed"
May 2024 · 554
[ Each sway turns over ]
Zywa May 2024
Each sway turns over

another sway, all night long --


we keep on dancing.
Composition "Gaillarde" ("Galliard", Italian jump dance, 2024, Dirk Veulemans), for the two self-built mobile organs and the Utopa-*****, performed by Dirk Veulemans in the Organpark on May 25th, 2024

Collection "org ANP ark" #199
May 2024 · 158
[ Demonstration and ]
Zywa May 2024
Demonstration and

imitation, play and learn --


to play together.
Third movement of the composition "Take U" (take the U-turn, 2015, Dirk Veulemans), for clarinet and live electronics, arranged for the two self-built mobile organs; performed by Dirk Veulemans in the Organpark on May 25th, 2024

Collection "org ANP ark" #200
May 2024 · 239
[ To heavenly goals ]
Zywa May 2024
To heavenly goals

lead only untrodden paths --


only worldly paths.
Novel "Quichotte" (2019, Salman Rushdie), part 1, chapter 7

Collection "Low gear"
May 2024 · 204
[ Our fantasy way ]
Zywa May 2024
Our fantasy way

too often takes us along --


into its whirlpools.
Novel "The Golden House" (2017, Salman Rushdie), chapter (3-) 30

About the dangerous strait near Rhion in Greece, between the Gulf of Patras and the Gulf of Corinth, there is the story of the nymph Charybdis ("she who ***** down"), who was enchanted by Zeus into a whirlpool

Collection "Low gear"
May 2024 · 400
[ It's unreal, the world ]
Zywa May 2024
It's unreal, the world

of the screens, you live in it --


like Don Quixote.
Beginning of the novel "Quichotte" (2019, Salman Rushdie), part 1, chapter 1

Collection "Low gear"
May 2024 · 233
[ Everything normal ]
Zywa May 2024
Everything normal:

the queen size beds, the TV --


and the pizza box.
American motel
Novel "Quichotte" (2019, Salman Rushdie), part 2, chapter 9

Collection "Low gear"
May 2024 · 274
[ There's a mystery ]
Zywa May 2024
There's a mystery

in him that I like to know --


don't, do, like to know.
Novel "Quichotte" (2019, Salman Rushdie), part 1, chapter 6

Collection "Low gear"
May 2024 · 672
[ I wake up. But hey ]
Zywa May 2024
I wake up. But hey!

How many hours did I sleep? --


Where am I? And when?
Novel "Quichotte" (2019, Salman Rushdie), part 2, chapter 9

Collection "Low gear"
May 2024 · 195
[ My childhood is now ]
Zywa May 2024
My childhood is now

a story, told with a smile --


at dinner parties.
Novel "Quichotte" (2019, Salman Rushdie), part 1, chapter 4

Collection "Low gear"
May 2024 · 363
[ The Golden House, all ]
Zywa May 2024
The Golden House, all

golden houses are beliefs --


in an illusion.
Novel "The Golden House" (2017, Salman Rushdie), chapter (1-) 2

Domus Aurea (Golden House) of emperor Nero in Rome

Collection "Low gear"
May 2024 · 298
[ I'm thinking aloud ]
Zywa May 2024
I'm thinking aloud

and looking out the window --


There, the river flows.
Novel "The Golden House" (2017, Salman Rushdie), chapter (2-) 22

Collection "Low gear"
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