Well, what my age is?

I have many and waver --


Which one shall I choose?


Wat mijn leeftijd is?Mein Alter? Viele
Ik heb er veel en aarzel --habe ich, welches davon --
welke te kiezen.werde ich wählen?

Poem H4817
Amsterdam, 2024-08-01
Jackson's Dilemma (Iris Murdoch) - 1995
Novel, chapter Six
Collection: Longing and Loss
Tribute to: Murdoch, Iris 
 

Just tell who you are,

tell it like a story, then --


it won't be too bad.


Vertel wie je bent,Erzähl, wer du bist,
vertel het als een verhaal --wie eine Geschichte, dann --
dan valt het wel mee.ist es nicht so schlimm.

Poem H4257
Amsterdam, 2023-10-28
Lighthousekeeping (Jeanette Winterson) - 2004
Novel, chapter Two Atlantics
Collection: Appearances
Tribute to: Winterson, Jeanette 
 

Stories that end well...

well, there really aren't any --


There are no endings.


Verhalen die goedGeschichten, die gut
aflopen bestaan echt niet --enden, gibt es wirklich nicht --
Er is geen afloop.Es gibt kein Ende.

Poem H4261
Amsterdam, 2023-10-28
Lighthousekeeping (Jeanette Winterson) - 2004
Novel, chapter Known point in the darkness
Collection: Stream
Tribute to: Winterson, Jeanette 
 

Just ask anyone

for a story and you'll get --


their complete life course.


Vraag zomaar iemandGefragt nach einer
om een verhaal en je krijgt --Geschichte, geben Menschen --
heel zijn levensloop.ihren Lebenslauf.

Poem H4000
Amsterdam, 2023-07-30
The PowerBook (Jeanette Winterson) - 2000
Novel, chapter "spitalfields"
Collection: Specialities
Tribute to: Winterson, Jeanette 
 

A song of life, late

at night between the mountains --


the barren mountains.


Lied van het leven,Ein Lied des Lebens,
's avonds tussen de bergen --am Abend in den Bergen --
de kale bergen.die kahlen Bergen.

Poem H3839
Amsterdam, 2023-06-03
Raga of the three chakras (Nirantar Yakthumba) - 2023
"Bhairavi Trichakra" for Kali (the black goddess of the primordial energy), 2023, Nirantar Yakthumba), performed on June 3rd, 2023 in the Organpark by Kristia Michael (voice), Giuseppe Sapienza (clarinet), Beste Yildiz (cello), Joel Gester Suárez (piano) and Nirantar Yakthumba (tuned metal bars)
Collection: org ANP ark 
Composer: Yakthumba, Nirantar 
 

Paper hat, tables

set: party on the jetty --


Just a drop older.


Tafels gedekt, mutsPapierhut, Tische
op: jarig op de vlonder --gedeckt: Fest auf dem Steg, nur --
Slechts een spat ouder.ein Spritzer älter.

Poem H3807
Amsterdam, 2023-04-30
Jacob van Lennepkanaal, Amsterdam
Collection: The Yellow House Museum
 

New Year, I would like

to say something important --


something eternal.


Oudjaar, nu zou ikNeujahr, ich möchte
iets eeuwigs willen zeggen --jetzt was Wichtiges sagen --
iets heel belangrijks.etwas Ewiges.

Poem S1458
Amsterdam, 2022-07-09
Like it or not - Faxing to Ger #4 (Nicolien Mizee) - 2021
Diary-novel "Hoog en laag springen - Faxen aan Ger #4"
Collection: Out of place
Tribute to: Mizee, Nicolien 
 

Zywa Clippings

Snippets of time, confetti
candies in five colours
We stare at the tastiest

Snippets, the hours and days
we live, snippets
of who we are

On a pleasant evening
we serve up anecdotes, bites
haphazardly on top of each other

We laugh character traits with it
to make our existence seem
like an interesting story

which is understandable, not an ego document
such a cut up story, cut to pieces
in film flashes or brainracking chapters

as if that would represent life

Poem 3427
Amsterdam, 2021-02-01
Confetti = candies (packed in five colours)
Collection: The Yellow House Museum
 

I wade through the stream

of lives and organise them:


into storyboards.


Ik waad door de stroomWaten durch den Fluss
van levens en orden ze --der Leben und sie ordnen --
tot scenario's.in Szenarien.

Poem H2448
Amsterdam, 2019-05-02
The introduction - Faxing to Ger #1 (Nicolien Mizee) - 2017
Diary-novel "De kennismaking - Faxen aan Ger"
Collection: Out of place
Tribute to: Mizee, Nicolien 
 

Episode thirteen

thousand and ninety: I play --


my life as a soap.


Aflevering tien-Folge zweitausend
duizendnegentig: ik speel --neun: ich spiele mein Leben --
mijn leven als soap.als Seifenoper.

Poem H2446
Amsterdam, 2019-04-28
The introduction - Faxing to Ger #1 (Nicolien Mizee) - 2017
Diary-novel "De kennismaking - Faxen aan Ger"
Collection: Out of place
Tribute to: Mizee, Nicolien 
 

We are just stories,

stories containing stories --


and that's all we are.


Wij zijn verhalen,Wir sind Geschichten,
verhalen van verhalen --Geschichten von Geschichten --
verder zijn wij niets.und nichts anderes.

Poem H1582
Amsterdam, 2016-10-31
Nothing remains of nothing (Ricardo Reis) - 1932
Poem "Nada fica de nada" (Fernando Pessoa)
Collection: Appearances
Tribute to: Reis, Ricardo; Pessoa, Fernando 
 

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