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Zywa 2d
I talk in my sleep,

I recorded it and then --


quickly erased it.
Novel "Shalimar the Clown" (2005, Salman Rushdie), chapter India

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa Mar 29
My foe shows no light,

but I do sense some little --


dark within myself.
Novel "Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights" (which is 1001 nights, 2015, Salman Rushdie), chapter 8 "In Which the Tide Begins to Turn"

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa Feb 25
The world is too tight,

would I be too big for it --


or can it still grow?
Poem "De wens" ("The wish", 2019, Bart Moeyaert)

Collection "Skin-contact"
Zywa Feb 20
You cry in your sleep,

that is a side of yourself --


that you don't know yet.
Novel "The Golden House" (2017, Salman Rushdie), chapter (1-) 12

Collection "Low gear [2]"
Zywa Jan 24
At most I myself

catch what I mean, with you it's --


misunderstandings.
Novel "Buitenstaanders" ("Outsiders", 1983, Renate Dorrestein), § 1

Collection "Wean Di"
Zywa Jan 15
Interrogators

give you a magnifier --


to observe yourself.
Novel "Maurits en de feiten" ("Maurits and the facts", 1986, Gerrit Krol), Prologue

Collection "Specialities"
Zywa Jan 1
Living to the full,

always searching for balance --


and finding myself.
For Maria Godschalk

Collection "On living on [1]"
Zywa Jan 1
You don't live to get

to know yourself, nonetheless --


it is part of it.
Novel "Perfecte stilte" ("Perfect silence", 2011, Thomas Verbogt), chapter Ritual

Collection "Inmost [1]"
Marília Galvão Nov 2023
Light thrives in the dark
by finding its way through the brenches
of a dense forest

Light thrives in the dark
by passing through the windows
of a wintered house

Light only strikes you
when you finally get to know
projected on the path you've always walked
your long buried shadow
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