Poem
Rutger Kopland
LETTER
Today I was to write you a lettera letter in which I wanted to understand something
but I didn’t write it, it went too slowly
I wrote and I looked at my hand
how that hand was slowly drawing words
in that handwriting something like a house began
to grow – I wanted to know what it was we’d lived in
to understand that, I was to write a letter
but all I saw were the clumsy words
that I was drawing before
I understood them
From: What Water Left Behind: Rutger Kopland
Publisher: Waxwing, Dublin, 2005
Publisher: Waxwing, Dublin, 2005
BRIEF
BRIEF
Vandaag zou ik je een brief schrijveneen brief waarin ik iets wilde begrijpen
maar ik deed dat niet, het ging te langzaam
ik schreef en ik keek naar mijn hand
hoe die hand langzaam woorden tekende
er ontstond in dat handschrift iets als
een huis – ik wilde weten waarin we woonden
om dat te begrijpen zou ik een brief schrijven
maar ik zag alleen de voorzichtige woorden
die ik tekende voor ik ze begreep
From: Verzamelde Gedichten
Publisher: Uitgeverij G.A. van Oorschot, Amsterdam
Publisher: Uitgeverij G.A. van Oorschot, Amsterdam
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LETTER
Today I was to write you a lettera letter in which I wanted to understand something
but I didn’t write it, it went too slowly
I wrote and I looked at my hand
how that hand was slowly drawing words
in that handwriting something like a house began
to grow – I wanted to know what it was we’d lived in
to understand that, I was to write a letter
but all I saw were the clumsy words
that I was drawing before
I understood them
From: What Water Left Behind: Rutger Kopland
Publisher: 2005, Waxwing, Dublin
Publisher: 2005, Waxwing, Dublin
LETTER
Today I was to write you a lettera letter in which I wanted to understand something
but I didn’t write it, it went too slowly
I wrote and I looked at my hand
how that hand was slowly drawing words
in that handwriting something like a house began
to grow – I wanted to know what it was we’d lived in
to understand that, I was to write a letter
but all I saw were the clumsy words
that I was drawing before
I understood them
From: What Water Left Behind: Rutger Kopland
Publisher: 2005, Waxwing, Dublin
Publisher: 2005, Waxwing, Dublin
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