Erik Spinoy is a poet and professor of Dutch literature at the University of Liège. His first collection of poetry, De jagers in de sneeuw (The Hunters in the Snow, 1986), was awarded the Flemish Debut Prize; his second collection, Susette (1990), the prestigious Hugues C. Pernath Prize. Partly thanks to the latter volume, Spinoy is, together with Dirk Van Bastelaere, seen as one of the major representatives of postmodernism in Flemish poetry.
Birds fly up
to the unfamiliar branches. The sun
hangs low. Time has revealed itself
and picked leaves, decay - the fruit
of itself, but each time new and
...
Adolf, lucky wolf.
Fabricated black alpha male
who throws himself on sexy hordes,
the overhealthy pack's fornicators.
...
Tigers, grizzlies, lynxes do it
differently: a pike's or carp's leap on
or beside it, a deadly flash, a
murderous blow or total catastrophe.
...