(for Annelize)
In those late Cape summer afternoons when at seven
the sun did still hang high and the day was bright,
...
With the end of every relationship
that with a woman I have had
(but the one that I did loose)
it feels as if I do die
...
(after Leonard Nolens)
In an own paradise we were together
where white stinkwood trees throw cool shadows over the green lawn
...
(for Annelize, in answer to Elisabeth Eybers)
My own words are sometimes stammering
where days and nights I do long for you
...
I
In wire, poles, concrete and pieces of steel
Keulen is disfigured and almost theatrical,
torn open by bomb after bomb
...
(after Lina Spies)
Like an animal I was put on a train,
my pretty dress is stained and brown,
...
(for Annelize)
There are so many things that I do want to tell you,
to me you are beautiful and have a very pretty face,
...
When the jackal-buzzard
does come here and sit in a tree,
haughty does look down
and continually does cry out to me
...
They sit deep in the gutter next to the tiled roof
sounds like machines that do hammer
and is doing something secretive
when scolding, cursing Mynahs break the silence,
...
(for Annelize)
I wish I could only a moment of your precious time take,
look at your soulful eyes see the dimple on your cheek
...