THE SEA IS A WOMAN
The sea so familiar with earth as
with the sky approaches me
sand-grained seagulls jackdaws kneel
ready for heaven-wide flight and
with the sky approaches me
sand-grained seagulls jackdaws kneel
ready for heaven-wide flight and
when I cool my hot fingertips
in the spattering of the first
wave I do myself up for enjoyment
the sea thrusts her curves forward
in the spattering of the first
wave I do myself up for enjoyment
the sea thrusts her curves forward
I feel her hot breath at my neck
whenever I cool lover disregard
the challenge disorderly set out
in the dike on naked-soft feet.
whenever I cool lover disregard
the challenge disorderly set out
in the dike on naked-soft feet.
Thierry Deleu
He is co-author of a number of Dutch textbooks for use in vocational training. Most of all, however, he is known as a poet, novelist, essayist and biographer. Since 2006, he has been chairman of ‘The 50 Master Poets of the Low Countries by the sea’.
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