Zywa On the balcony at Grandma's

Grandma is bored, she waits
for my wedding and perhaps
she fantasises that I'm getting pregnant

How would it have been
with grandfather and her in bed?
We don't talk about that

just about the afternoons
in the sun, gaining some
colour for the summer

She would have liked that, but
at that time people thought differently
Anyway, bikinis did not yet exist

So much has changed, she reads it
to me from the magazine
and I laugh at her astonishment

She is old, her hair as white
as the walls in this sun, lovely
Lu does not have to come yet

 Poem 4781
 Amsterdam, 2022-11-07
 Second Story Sunlight (Edward Hopper) - 1960
 Painting
 Tribute to: Hopper, Edward 
 Collection: NightWatch 


Zywa Immortality

Hair turned white from worries
right away, shrinking
for fear and a pinkish skin
on light feet when being in love:

transformations
are very normal
even the blissful body
after a jar of mead

that divine food
which unmistakably pours
immortality in all cells
with everyone who drinks it

the gold, searched in vain
of which the powers
and alchemists dreamed -
forgotten by almost everyone

after - the pious redemption
of the soul, the plagues
of prosperity and the brewing
with yeast, gale and hops

 Poem 4759
 Amsterdam, 2022-10-26
 Tej (honey wine, mead)
Nectar/Ambrosia/Amrita = "immortality"-food

 Collection: Secrets & Believers 


The whiplashes pop

my bare buttocks groaning red --


insatiable red.


Zweepslagen knallenDie Peitschen knallen
blote billen kreunend rood --bloßes Gesäß stöhnend rot --
Onverzadigbaar.unersättlich rot.

 Poem H3198
 Amsterdam, 2022-02-12
 Breathing _ Choir : [ VxUxS ] (Branimir Štivi?) - 2022
 Livecoding performance, February 12th, 2022, in the Organpark
 Composer:  
 Collection: org anp ark 


Come and drink with me

while the peaches are blooming --


they'll be bare next day.


Kom met me drinkenKomm, trink mit mir, jetzt
nu de perziken bloeien --wo die Pfirsiche blühen --
morgen zijn ze kaal!morgen sind sie kahl.

 Poem H2794
 Amsterdam, 2020-10-08
 Here in the Huayang Temple (Juyi Bai) - 806
 Invitation to remonstrator (critic) Li Liu
 Tribute to: Bai, Juyi 
 Collection: Em Brace 


Zywa Real pleasures

In slow motion, I make silly faces
together they look normal
I wind myself back

and forth, enlarge me
and watch me close to the skin:
I look real

whatever hat I wear
whatever my wishes are
underneath it

In the dark, I feel inside me
for who I am, listening
to my body

which is difficult to understand
It wants to eat and enjoy
fondling, yes it wants to

enjoy music and attention
and the knowledge
to be needed, admired

it wants to surrender
to someone, to real
pleasures that are seen

 Poem 2043
 Amsterdam, 2019-01-21
 Collection: Frames 


After school, running

across the street the fastest --


straight to the sweetshop.


Na school om het hardstNach der Schule schnell
rennen naar de overkant --auf die andere Seite:
het snoepwinkeltje.Süßwarenladen.

 Poem H1052
 Amsterdam, 2014-11-16
 Collection: Mosaic virus 


As a baby, I

had a lot of fun falling --


into daddy's hands.


Als baby viel ikViel Spaß machte es
met veel plezier, keer op keer --mir als Baby, zu fallen --
in papa's handen.in Papas Händen.

 Poem H0561
 Amsterdam, 2013-08-21
 Dedicated to: Madelief dK 
 Collection: Metamorphic body 


So tasty, the smell

of steaming bread, freshly baked --


while I was sleeping.


Zo lekker, de geurHerrlich, der Geruch
van broden, vers gebakken --von Brot, ganz frisch gebacken --
terwijl ik nog sliep.während ich noch schlief.

 Poem H0080
 Amsterdam, 2011-12-14
 Collection: Bruises 

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