Zywa Skull soup

On a swivel chair, I look around
the time capsule of my head
flies and devises stories

of memories and images
that pass, I travel
to my birth country

It does not exist, never
it has existed, it is a soup

of ingredients picked life-
long at my feet, cooked
in the pan of my skull

      The fresh soup now
      from my birth country
      tastes different, really

      I see it
      at the plants and the varieties

Poem 1060
Amsterdam, 2017-02-22
Chair car (Edward Hopper) - 1965
Painting
Film "Shirley: visions of reality (2013, Gustav Deutsch)
Collection: NightWatch
Keyword: Home: homeland / homesickness 
Tribute to: Hopper, Edward; Deutsch, Gustav 
 


Zywa Interplace

Only the radio is still here
the movers left
my house, an interplace now
a pause in the street

There, the inner garden
squirrels and tall trees
Standing at the window, warmth
on my face, in my clothes

The room is nicer now
swept, a sunny emptiness
with a windowsill of music
that I will take with me, in a little while

Poem 1201
Amsterdam, 2017-03-12
Sun in an empty room (Edward Hopper) - 1963
Painting
Film "Shirley: visions of reality (2013, Gustav Deutsch)
Collection: NightWatch
Keyword: Relocation 
Tribute to: Hopper, Edward; Deutsch, Gustav 
 


Zywa Meantime Now

He is gone, I wish he came back
Would he, perhaps, now happen to
have come here to this movie?

That I turn around and he is there
alone, like me, and now
we know how it works

we might make more of it

if he, if he
wants so and seizes this opportunity
before the gong goes, and

if I, if I
dare to look behind
now it is still a break

Poem 1199
Amsterdam, 2017-03-12
Intermission (Edward Hopper) - 1963
Painting
Film "Shirley: visions of reality (2013, Gustav Deutsch)
Collection: NightWatch
Keyword: Love: heartbreak 
Tribute to: Hopper, Edward; Deutsch, Gustav 
 


Zywa Cradle

Along the curtain, the caress
of the wind that embraces me

in the middle of the sun window
of the floor of the room

my feet on the carpet
reach deep into the earth

my heat salutes the heat
my breath kisses the wind

      I pull the bed into the sunlight
      and cradle me in well-being

      stretched out and opened wide
      I glide into the world

Poem 1177
Amsterdam, 2017-03-10
A woman in the sun (Edward Hopper) - 1961
Painting
Film "Shirley: visions of reality (2013, Gustav Deutsch)
Collection: NightWatch
Keyword: Love: for yourself 
Tribute to: Hopper, Edward; Deutsch, Gustav 
 


Zywa Real Buttocks

A second, a stain flies over
the wall, a seagull

the evening is brewing and I
lie in my shirt on the bed

and read Plato, the allegory
of the prisoners in the cave

I hear my husband, close quickly
the book and turn around

with my back to him
I pretend that I'm asleep. He comes

and sits next to me, unpleasantly
warm against me

My buttocks are exposed
but he takes no notice of that

Poem 1202
Amsterdam, 2017-03-12
Excursion into philosophy (Edward Hopper) - 1959
Painting
Film "Shirley: visions of reality (2013, Gustav Deutsch)
Collection: NightWatch
Keyword: Love: flawed/doubt/powerless 
Tribute to: Hopper, Edward; Deutsch, Gustav 
 


Zywa No man's

On the way
I ended up in a no man's house
in no-man's time and no man's land

The bed is queen-
size, enough place
for a king, if he

is good for more
than sleeping, than having sex
for more than once

In the empty hotel room
the window is a command
to look outside

Narrow ornamental curtains
always a view, always
being exposed

It is strange, nobody is living
in this beautiful place, here
I would like to live

Squeaking wheels
in the hallway, a clicking door
and it's quiet. What kind

of person may that be?
Shall I start to unpack
my suitcase anyway?

Poem 1474
Amsterdam, 2017-08-02
Western Motel (Edward Hopper) - 1957
Painting
Film "Shirley: visions of reality (2013, Gustav Deutsch)
Collection: NightWatch
Keyword: Love: wish (thought) 
Tribute to: Hopper, Edward; Deutsch, Gustav 
 


Zywa Our promise

The morning sunlight
on our face, our house
of brownstones, the promise
of the future that we chose

It is really starting now, we will
walk along the channeled stream
and the children will play
under the pines on the hill

Here we want to root
broadly and deeply
until the sun sets

We have unpacked our stuff
the cards with congratulations
next to the vase with tulips

the bed open
the house inaugurated

Poem 1683
Amsterdam, 2018-02-17
Sunlight on brownstones (Edward Hopper) - 1956
Painting
Film "Shirley: visions of reality (2013, Gustav Deutsch)
Collection: NightWatch
Keywords: Promise, Future: wish 
Tribute to: Hopper, Edward; Deutsch, Gustav 
 


Zywa Morning sun

In the morning sun, on the bed
at the wide open window
I breathe-in the world and
my breath into the world

I no longer feel love
from him, only his worries
he doesn't want to talk, life
is flowing past us

he is a good man
yet I will leave
for a new home
empty but light and spacious

Poem 1204
Amsterdam, 2017-03-12
Morning sun (Edward Hopper) - 1952
Painting
Film "Shirley: visions of reality (2013, Gustav Deutsch)
Collection: NightWatch
Keyword: Love: heartbreak 
Tribute to: Hopper, Edward; Deutsch, Gustav 
 


Zywa Outside there's a thunderstorm

In an armchair at the hotel reception
I am practising my lines
outside there's a thunderstorm
the rain rattles each time
the doors open

Repeating sentences
in between, watching
the public theatre
of the beautiful outside
of the elderly couple

sipping a drink
and waiting impatiently for a taxi
talking about friends and acquaintances
in whom they recognize the inner sides
of the characters from the play

Poem 1472
Amsterdam, 2017-08-02
Hotel lobby (Edward Hopper) - 1943
Painting
Film "Shirley: visions of reality (2013, Gustav Deutsch)
Collection: NightWatch
Keyword: Ego / ~ism/~centrism 
Tribute to: Hopper, Edward; Deutsch, Gustav 
 


Zywa The cave

The window is up
trains thundering along
blow fresher air inside

Time would stand still here
if there was no light driving across the room
we go

I put away the folders
pull down the window
and the blinds

Peter is thinking
without saying a word
he turns off the light

and closes up
See you
tomorrow

Poem 1200
Amsterdam, 2017-03-12
Office at night (Edward Hopper) - 1940
Painting
Film "Shirley: visions of reality (2013, Gustav Deutsch)
Collection: NightWatch
Keyword: Time 
Tribute to: Hopper, Edward; Deutsch, Gustav 
 


Zywa La grande bellezza

The movie palace is charity
for fans and old people
helping them pass the time
I watch and I learn
the lines from Mama Capra

about the great beauty
of the dream of the senses
Giulietta is sent away
from the market, with her
homemade goat cheeses

At home in her little paradise
the former bed of the brook
now my daydream in the corner
at the entrance of the hall
bees are buzzing around

Would I rather play?
See myself?
In a hundred roles larger than life?

Poem 1112
Amsterdam, 2017-03-03
New York Movie (Edward Hopper) - 1939
Painting
Film "Shirley: visions of reality (2013, Gustav Deutsch)
Collection: NightWatch
Keywords: Beauty: surroundings, Paradise 
Tribute to: Hopper, Edward; Deutsch, Gustav 
 


Zywa Slowly the night falls

My dear, my dear
and I are bored
he is surfing

the internet and I practise
not to disturb him
fingerings in the air

I will go away, move
and he? frets himself
looking for a way out

slowly the night falls
silently I close the piano
if only I could help him

foot by foot four passes
to behind his chair, gently
I touch him, caress

an arm, he puts the screen away
and leans back, lets me
wrap my arms around him

quietly he lays his hands on mine
if only he had tears, words
if need be, passionate kisses

Poem 1203
Amsterdam, 2017-03-12
Room in New York (Edward Hopper) - 1932
Painting
Film "Shirley: visions of reality (2013, Gustav Deutsch)
Collection: NightWatch
Keyword: Love: change / end 
Tribute to: Hopper, Edward; Deutsch, Gustav 
 


Zywa Love alone

Hours alone, living small
in a hotel room
without dying

going crazy or
staying behind
alone forever

like hell and purgatory
in the evening
on the stage

I do miss my children here
beside me on the bed, my love
my life without drama

without the decisive end
from which the audience wants to learn
to understand what life is

Poem 1473
Amsterdam, 2017-08-02
Hotel room (Edward Hopper) - 1931
Painting
Film "Shirley: visions of reality (2013, Gustav Deutsch)
Collection: NightWatch
Keyword: Missing: absence 
Tribute to: Hopper, Edward; Deutsch, Gustav 
 

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