The world is gold through

the intangible filter --


of particulates.


De wereld schemertGolden schimmert die
goud door het ontastbare --Welt durch den untastbaren --

filter van fijnstof.Filter von Feinstaub.

Poem H4947
De Koog, 2024-09-28
Collection: PumicePieces
 

This café: am I

intoxicated, tipsy --


from the whisky fumes?


Bedwelmt het caféBerauscht mich jetzt das
me, raak ik aangeschoten --Café, werde ich beschwipst --

van de whiskywalm?von Whiskydämpfen?

Poem S2384
De Koog, 2024-09-26
Abscond (Renate Dorrestein) - 1986
Novel "Noorderzon", chapter 2
Collection: Lack
Tribute to: Dorrestein, Renate 
 

I'm fully present,

my body, all my senses --


here, in this garden.


Ik ben aanwezig,Ich bin anwesend,
mijn lichaam, mijn zintuigen --mein Körper, meine Sinne --

in deze herfsttuin.hier, im Herbstgarten.

Poem H4278
Amsterdam, 2023-11-11
Free (Claire M Singer) - 2022
Composition "Saor" ("Free", 2022, Claire M Singer), for five organs, performed by her on November 11th, 2023 in the Organpark
Collection: org ANP ark 
Composer: Singer, Claire M 
 

There is no light in

the lighthouse, like blind people --


we're groping the way.


In de vuurtorenIm ganzen Leuchtturm
is geen licht, we leven op --gibt es kein Licht, wie Blinde --

de tast als blinden.leben wir tastend.

Poem H4255
Amsterdam, 2023-10-28
Lighthousekeeping (Jeanette Winterson) - 2004
Novel, chapters: Two Atlantics, and: Known point in the darkness
Collection: MistI
Tribute to: Winterson, Jeanette 
 

Over there: the Ocean,

inside me another one --


Without Lighthouses


Daar: de Oceaan,Da : der Ozean,
en binnen in mij nóg een --und in mir ein anderer --

Zonder Vuurtorens.Ohne Leuchttürme.

Poem S1983
Amsterdam, 2023-10-28
Lighthousekeeping (Jeanette Winterson) - 2004
Novel, chapter Two Atlantics
Collection: MistI
Tribute to: Winterson, Jeanette 
 

Zywa Wake up

Live! Not dying
like all the sad-eyed people
but like the dog
that dances in the window

Wake up and look
There's sun, there's stars
there's daisies
and it swirls
in your sex

Wake up to a poem
Your blood flows
Spring comes and
there's bread in the oven

I'm not saying anything new
My words are clear
as water, as your soul
The sea falls and rises
but man is cruel

Poem 5240
Amsterdam, 2023-06-12
Cruelty (Namdea Dhasal) - 1973
Poem (collection "Golpitha")
Collection: Changing Times
Tribute to: Dhasal, Namdea 
 

All my life it is

mysterious that I think --


with all my body.


Levenslang is hetSo geheimnisvoll:
geheimzinnig dat ik denk --mein ganzer Körper ersinnt --

met heel mijn lichaam.meine Gedanken.

Poem H3002
Amsterdam, 2021-08-07
Collection: Metamorphic body
 

My body reacts,

it makes me do what it needs --


it makes me think this.


Mijn lichaam handelt,Mein Körper handelt,
laat me doen wat het verlangt --lässt mich tun, was er sich wünscht --

laat me dit denken.lässt mich das wissen.

Poem H2868
Amsterdam, 2020-12-22
Collection: Dearme
Dedicated to: Marianne H, Ali I 
 

So I fell asleep

there is no doubt about it --


because I wake up.


Ik ben dus in slaapAlso bin ich ein-
gevallen, ongetwijfeld --geschlafen, ohne Zweifel --

want ik word wakker.weil ich aufwache.

Poem S0999
Amsterdam, 2020-03-13
Ostend (K. Schippers) - 2020
Observation "Oostende", in the collection of stories "Andermans wegen"
Collection: Here &Now&
Tribute to: Schippers, K. 
 

Zywa My head-servant

I don't know what is true
I see connections and doubt
about my head-servant

for he draws them compulsively
and connects memories
amidst all their twists and turns

More and more often I want
him to redo it, but
it takes him increasingly more

imagination to understand
what is happening and what
in summary, is untenable anyway

so haphazardly does it come
criss-cross from all sides, and it
gets lost within me and falls apart

Poem 1676
Amsterdam, 2018-02-14
Collection: The light of words
 

I think I'm looking,

but seeing is there before --


I realize it.


Ik denk te kijken,Ich denke, ich schau,
maar het zien is er eerder --aber das Sehen ist da --

dan ik het besef.bevor ich es weiß.

Poem H0541
Amsterdam, 2013-08-11
Collection: Life line 
 

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