Author: kamiel79

Sometimes, perversion of perversion is the closest we can get to perfection .
Meditation on freedom
Breathe in and think about a beginning. How to start a meditation on freedom? Do we have an entry point, a route that we can follow? Let's clear our head of all that has been said about freedom. Smile. We are going to choose freely what we mean by freedom here. We are gaming ourselves. ...
Het rottend ooft
Een van de gevleugelde uitspraken van wijlen mijn moeder was "het rottend ooft wordt mij in de schoot geworpen". Wanneer er in mijn ouderlijk huis fruit over was werd dit altijd opgegeten, en belandde op mijn moeders bord, die het schoorvoetend verorberde. Ik ben dankbaar zo grondig geconditioneerd hebben om nooit eten weg te gooien. ...
Bird
Oh beguiling creature, I will observe you quietly without the desire to know your scientific name, or how many there are of you. I will follow you in your flight, I will look at the color of your feathers, or at the mournful bend of your beak, and call you that. I will listen to ...
Reading: Dusk by Rae Armantrout
Rae Armantrout (b. 1947) is one of the founding members of the West Coast group of Language poets (language poetry: started in the 1970s; language dictates meaning; reader participates in constructing meaning) . Her poetry is characterized by the clashes of the elements they are composed of. She has said that she is seeking to ...
Reading: Lines on my face by J.D. McClatchy
J.D. McClatchy (1945 - 2018) was a prolific poet, editor, critic and librettist from Pennsylvania. He was praised for his polished and erudite verse. Lines on my face Decades now of looking back at it— in some old satellite’s rearview mirror, say— has something to show beyond the folds and feeders, the volumes of magma ...
Call me if you are a publisher and I will see if I can mention you in my next poem
Reading: Wedding by Alice Oswald
Alice Oswald (b. 1966) is an Oxford-educated classicist and award-winning poet. She has written poetically about ecology and wrote her own take on the Iliad. Her 2016 book is called "Falling Awake". I read the 1996 poem "Wedding": Wedding From time to time our love is like a sail and when the sail begins to alternate from tack to ...