my poetry is the world

my poetry is the world

i write it every day

i rewrite it every day

i see it every day

i read it every day

i eat it every day

i sleep it every day

the world is my chance

it changes me every day

my chance is my poetry

herman de vries (1931 -), 1972 – from Cees de Boer, Colin Huizing, Jean-Hubert Martin, herman de vries, Birgit Donker “to be ways to be ways ways to be all ways to be ways ways…”, Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam, 2015, ISBN 978-90-78088-99-8

Cover: herman de vries at Lazzaretto Nuovo Island, Venice (ph. Diana Marrone)

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