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Ingmar Heytze

SECRET POEM

Last night I buried a kiss.
It had lain between us for thirteen months
and you had already asked several times:
what is it that keeps lying there. 

When you finally fell asleep, I pressed
the kiss with my lips into a little box
full of cotton wool and walked to the garden. There 

I dug a grave two mouths deep
under the beech tree. The thousand kisses
that next year will come blowing from the branches
red and sweet, are all for you.

GEHEIM GEDICHT

GEHEIM GEDICHT

Vannacht heb ik een zoen begraven.
Hij lag dertien maanden tussen ons in
en jij had al een paar keer gevraagd:
wat ligt daar nou toch steeds.  

Toen je eindelijk sliep, drukte ik
de zoen met mijn lippen in een doosje
vol watten en liep naar de tuin. Daar  

groef ik een graf van twee monden diep
onder de beuk. De duizend zoenen
die volgend jaar rood en zoet uit de takken
komen waaien, zijn allemaal voor jou.

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SECRET POEM

Last night I buried a kiss.
It had lain between us for thirteen months
and you had already asked several times:
what is it that keeps lying there. 

When you finally fell asleep, I pressed
the kiss with my lips into a little box
full of cotton wool and walked to the garden. There 

I dug a grave two mouths deep
under the beech tree. The thousand kisses
that next year will come blowing from the branches
red and sweet, are all for you.

SECRET POEM

Last night I buried a kiss.
It had lain between us for thirteen months
and you had already asked several times:
what is it that keeps lying there. 

When you finally fell asleep, I pressed
the kiss with my lips into a little box
full of cotton wool and walked to the garden. There 

I dug a grave two mouths deep
under the beech tree. The thousand kisses
that next year will come blowing from the branches
red and sweet, are all for you.

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