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Anneke Brassinga
JORDAAN, AMSTERDAM
Palmgracht’s colonnade, a heaven-reef the cloud shorereaching out to, distantly oncoming, an evening sea
whose mother-of-pearl I tinged with my fiery glow now
I was welkin and revelation, radiance was I where
trembling summer verdure warped and wefted in water-
mirror-ripples, the contrailing swallows high above flitted
through warm breeze of earth’s breathing – now light
began to dwindle into gloaming and I
perceived: this waiting alone has been your presence.
JORDAAN
JORDAAN
Zuilengang palmengracht, een hemelrif wolkenkustzich strekkende naar verre nadering van schemerzee
wier paarlemoer ik tintte met mijn vuren gloed nu
uitspansel ik en openbaring was, klaarte waar
in waterspiegelblinken trillend zomerlover
werd geweven, hoog daarover zwaluwlijnen ijlden
door warme bries van aarde’s ademhaling – nu licht
verzonken raken ging in duisterheden en ik
begreep: dit wachten alleen is je komst geweest.
© 2005, Anneke Brassinga
From: Wachtwoorden
Publisher: De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam
From: Wachtwoorden
Publisher: De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam
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JORDAAN, AMSTERDAM
Palmgracht’s colonnade, a heaven-reef the cloud shorereaching out to, distantly oncoming, an evening sea
whose mother-of-pearl I tinged with my fiery glow now
I was welkin and revelation, radiance was I where
trembling summer verdure warped and wefted in water-
mirror-ripples, the contrailing swallows high above flitted
through warm breeze of earth’s breathing – now light
began to dwindle into gloaming and I
perceived: this waiting alone has been your presence.
From: Wachtwoorden
JORDAAN, AMSTERDAM
Palmgracht’s colonnade, a heaven-reef the cloud shorereaching out to, distantly oncoming, an evening sea
whose mother-of-pearl I tinged with my fiery glow now
I was welkin and revelation, radiance was I where
trembling summer verdure warped and wefted in water-
mirror-ripples, the contrailing swallows high above flitted
through warm breeze of earth’s breathing – now light
began to dwindle into gloaming and I
perceived: this waiting alone has been your presence.
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