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Tsead Bruinja
- Netherlands
BRIDGEMASTER
(BRÊGEMAN)
CELLAR
(KELDER)
GOOSE
(GUOZ)
GRASS THAT’S ALREADY LAUGHING
(GERS DAT ALFÊST LAKET)
QUOTE I
(SITAAT I)
while our hair grows thinner
()
Tsjêbbe Hettinga
- Netherlands
FROM OVERSEAS AND FARTHER
(FAN OER SEE EN FIERDER)
STRANGE SHORES
(Frjemde kusten)
THE JUG
(DE KRÛK)
UNDER THE WORLD
(UNDER DE WRÂLD)
TEEMING WITH SEAGULLS
(Gesicht fol seefûgels)
BEYOND THE SALT MARSH AND NOWHERE CITY
(Oan leech en Stêd Niks foarby)
Albertina Soepboer
- Netherlands
CANDY SAYS
(CANDY SAYS)
DECEMBER IS THE COOLEST MONTH
(DECEMBER IS THE COOLEST MONTH)
ENCOUNTER
(MOETING)
I’LL NEVER BE YOUR MAGGIE MAY
(I’LL NEVER BE YOUR MAGGIE MAY)
PIGEONS
(DOWEN)
ROOTS
(WOARTELS)
Nyk de Vries
- Netherlands
CARNIVAL
(KARNAVAL)
PLAZA ST. ANA
(PLAZA ST. ANA)
MOTORMAN
(MOTORMAN)
I DIVED INTO A BAY
(IK DOEK YN IN BAAI)
POEM
THE HABITUDE OF THE EYES 34
I am the rain that quenches the earth’s thirst, a pregnant gift, no …
POEM
THE CITY IS DESIGNED VERY WELL
The city is designed very well. Moving about is easy even for someone like me …
POEM
Still too tired not to be still
Still too tired not to be still you come and sit for a vigor not knowing how to be …
POEM
GOODBYE MY TWENTIETH CENTURY (I)
A forest, evolving blue inside the dream. There is where I used to go as a …
POEM
ROOKS OVER AVEBURY
There must have been a score of them, all lift-and-dip-and-fluster, beak and …
POEM
ARRIVAL AT SANTOS
Here is a coast; here is a harbor; here, after a meager diet of horizon, is some …
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