The site hut looks like

a shoe-box diorama --


with him as a doll.


De bouwkeet lijkt welDer Bauwagen sieht
een kijkdoos, met hem erin --aus wie ein Diorama --

als een poppetje.mit ihm als Puppe.

Poem H5977
Amsterdam, 2025-10-15
Angel (Wanda Bommer) - 2009
Novel "Engel", chapter 2, paragraph 13 (fast forward button [Lowlands/New York 2001])
Collection: Appearances
Tribute to: Bommer, Wanda 
 

The lightning bolts blind

me, I try to look very --


quickly and sharply.


De bliksemschichtenDie Blitze blenden
verblinden me, ik probeer --mich, ich versuche, schnell und --

heel snel te kijken.scharf hinzusehen.

Poem H5835
Amsterdam, 2025-08-16
Diary 1970-1971 (Frida Vogels) - 2011
"Dagboek 1970-1971" - August 9th, 1970, Pieve di Tremosine
Collection: Lookout
Tribute to: Vogels, Frida 
 

He calls out. He's blind.

Pushing a cart, he calls out --


Cauli, cauli-flow'.


Hij roept. Hij is blind.Er ruft. Er ist blind.
En hij duwt een kar, hij roept --Und er schiebt einen Karren --

Bloem-kool, bloem-kolen.Blumen-kohl, ruft er.

Poem H5637
Amsterdam, 2025-06-25
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke) - 1910
Novel "Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge", chapter #18, Es ist gut, es laut zu sagen (It's good to say it out loud)
Collection: Held True
Tribute to: Rilke, Rainer Maria 
 

The movie actress

sits on horsehair, you see it --


because she feels it.


De actrice zitDie Schauspielerin
op paardenhaar, je ziet dat --sitzt auf Rosshaar, man sieht es --

omdat zij het voelt.weil sie es ja spürt.

Poem H5602
Amsterdam, 2025-06-12
The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson) - 2025
Film - Liesl sits on a horsehair mattress
Collection: Local inconveniences
Tribute to: Anderson, Wes 
 

The shadows are thin,

they're spectators of the world --


outside their cavern.


Magere schimmen,Die Schatten sind dünn,
toeschouwers van de wereld --Zuschauer der Welt außer-

buiten hun spelonk.halb ihrer Höhle.

Poem S2592
Amsterdam, 2025-03-12
The Women of Venice (Alberto Giacometti) - 1956
Sculpture group "Les femmes de Venise"
Allegory of the cave (375 BC, Plato, dialogue "Politeia" ["Republic"], VII 514a-520a)

Collection: PumicePieces
Tribute to: Giacometti, Alberto; Plato 
 

The hall is sold out,

because we always remove --


superfluous chairs.


Uitverkochte zaal:Ausverkaufter Saal:
zoals altijd haalden we --wie immer entfernten wir --

lege stoelen weg.die leeren Stühle.

Poem H5051
Amsterdam, 2024-11-08
The reading club (Renate Dorrestein) - 2010
Roman "De leesclub", chapter One
Collection: PumicePieces
Tribute to: Dorrestein, Renate 
 

The seagull that flies

up in my reflection waves --


at me like a hand.


De meeuw die opvliegtDie Seemöwe in
in mijn weerspiegeling zwaait --meinem Spiegelbild winkt mir --

naar mij als een hand.wie eine Hand zu.

Poem H4982
Amsterdam, 2024-10-15
A quick wave (Ellen Deckwitz) - 2024
Column "Even zwaaien", in the NRC of October 15th, 2024
Collection: Death on Cast
Tribute to: Deckwitz, Ellen 
 

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
 

First you slurp water,

and from inside, it slurps you:


isn't that called drowning?


Je slurpt water, datDu schlürfst Wasser, das
van binnenuit jou opslurpt:dich dann von innen aufschlürft:

is dat verdrinken?ist das Ertrinken?

Poem H3948
Amsterdam, 2023-07-13
Finder's keepers (Lize Spit)
Novella "De eerlijke vinder", part IV
Collection: Shelter
 

What a nice couple,

yet they talk seriously --


about a dead man.


Wat een leuk stel daar,Ein Liebespaar, und
en toch praten ze ernstig --doch bereden sie ernsthaft --

over een dode.einen toten Mann.

Poem S1821
Amsterdam, 2023-07-09
The Good Apprentice (Iris Murdoch) - 1985
Novel, chapter 2, part 5
Collection: Longing and Loss
Tribute to: Murdoch, Iris 
 

Zywa Like a painting by Vincent van Gogh

Go go, I'm going crazy
seeing everything at once

an overall picture from here
and there and from above and the side

the world, my room
the field full of sunflowers

in a vase and another vase
everything patched together

to fictional points of view
that blend into one another

like my brain does
with everything

that the nerves mercilessly
shoot in from my eyes

a collage like a painting
by Vincent van Gogh

Poem 2292
Amsterdam, 2019-06-21
Collection: Mosaic virus
Tribute to: Van Gogh, Vincent 
 

Zywa Impressionism

The mystery of floating
ships, the river, heron
crow, magpie, Senex and Safinur

open line, nostalgia
for good manners
radio silence, absent

in the café, draft in the room
wood of the balcony, album page
behind glass, new laces

the trouser-flapped man
from the village, one of us
life itself, where I still am

Poem 2032
Amsterdam, 2019-01-15
Collections of poetry by Robert Anker
Collection: Summer birds
Tribute to: Anker, Robert 
 

Describing facts is

subjective, an opinion --


It is of no use!


Een feit beschrijvenFakten beschreiben
is subjectief, een mening --ist subjektiv, ein Blickpunkt --

Daar heb je niets aan!Das nützt niemandem!

Poem S0787
Vaison-la-Romaine, 2018-09-15
Atlas shrugged (Ayn Rand) - 1957
Novel, part 1 'Non-contradiction', chapter 8 'The John Galt Line'
Collection: Willegos
Tribute to: Rand, Ayn 
 

Eye Film Institute

on the IJ: reflecting white --


it is cloudy grey.


Eye FilmmuseumEye Film Museum
aan het IJ: spiegelend wit --am IJ-Fluß: spiegelglatt weiß --

is het wolkengrijs.ist es wolkengrau.

Poem H0063
Amsterdam, 2011-12-13
Collection: Secrets & Believers
 

The polder is green,

nothing but grass, grass hides grass,


hides ditches and roads.


De polder is groen,Der Polder ist grün,
niets dan gras, gras verbergt gras,alles Gras, Gras verbirgt Gras,

sloten en wegen.Gräben und Straßen.

Poem H0043
Amsterdam, 2011-11-30
Collection: Life line 
 

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