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Zywa May 8
It's our secret bed,

there in the dark, where we live --


dreaming together.
Poem "Nagmaal" ("Communion" [sacrament], 1979 (2001), Breyten Breytenbach), written in prison

Collection "Within the walls"
Zywa Mar 11
My kisses ask you:

please love me, I do love you --


because I kiss you.
Submitted letter "Liefde is vormenplicht" ("Love is a duty of formality") by Henk Bresssers, included in the article "*** voorkomt u dat uw huwelijk in de scheidingsstatistieken belandt?" ("How do you prevent your marriage from ending up in the divorce statistics?"), published in the NRC of December 24th, 2019

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 10s"
Zywa Feb 5
We talk searchingly,

confidentially, as if --


we are weaving dreams.
Novel "De verdronkene" (2005, "The Storm" / "The drowned", 2010, Margriet de Moor), § 1-8

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s"
Zywa Dec 2023
Dad drinks Mama's wine,

thinking of the old days, when --


they drank together.
(Last stanza of the) poem "At the River" (2009, Louise Glück)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s"
Zywa Nov 2023
Being in love, blind,

but don't be blind later on --


It would be the end.
Novel "Munya" (name: "Wish/Desire/ What is longed for permanently even though it is very difficult to get", 2008, Abdelkader Benali), chapter Amsterdam

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s"
Zywa Aug 2023
Such oppressive love,

after years of marriage --


of growing apart.
Novel "The PowerBook" (2000, Jeanette Winterson), chapter "NEW DOCUMENT"

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s and 10s"
Zywa Jul 2023
Love: forgetting you

know each other, discover --


each other once more.
Novel "De rimpels van Esther Ornstein - De geschiedenis van een verzuim" ("The wrinkles of Esther Ornstein - The history of a neglect", 1959, Simon Vestdijk), chapter 3-4

Collection "Inmost [2]"
Zywa Jul 2023
She broke up with me.

Overwhelming! Finally --


something big happened!
Novel "De laatste kans - De geschiedenis van een liefde" ("The last chance - The history of a love", 1960, Simon Vestdijk), chapter 2-2

Collection "Inmost"
Zywa Jun 2023
He talks about her

all the time, so there's a chance --


it's almost over.
Novel "de vrije vogel en zijn kooien - De geschiedenis van een domicilie" ("the free bird and its cages - The history of a donicile", 1957, Simon Vestdijk), chapter 3-2

Collection "Inmost"
Zywa Jun 2023
You don't have to say a thing
not even my name
we walk a bit

from embrace to embrace
securing all the preceding
deep in our belly

Maybe there is too much
to discuss, but soon
half words will be enough

and we will kiss each other
with poetic sentences
full of love in their gaps

like our whole life is
an agenda full of gaps
filled with friends

care and roses
experiences kept deep
in our belly without words
Collection "Lilith's Powers" #90
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