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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nI have been told much this year
of loss and its long arms
felt it too
reaching across oceans
winding through streets
around corners
knocking on our doors and windows<\/p>\n\n\n\n
even the smallest apartment has an echo I think of bodies water the earth is each of us I think of our bodies mostly water<\/p>\n\n\n\n each of us hoping one day we’ve grown tired of hoping one day to Yesterday was the last day when the curfew in the Netherlands still had its power. Our friend Theo Langason wrote a poem inspired by the pictures of empty past-curfew streets from a few weeks ago (taken by Alborz Sahebdivani). Have a read: I have been told much this yearof loss and its long armsfelt it … Continue reading “The end of curfew”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"https:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
when it is empty<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_5580-1024x683.jpg\")
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rivers in reverse
wells run dry<\/p>\n\n\n\n
mostly water and
so are we<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a lonely planet
bathed in darkness
eyes fixed on distant stars
long-dead stars<\/p>\n\n\n\n
full up with grief and
pain and grief and
somehow still finding room
for joy and laughter and
hope and
all that water<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_5598-2-1024x683.jpg\")
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a body of water
rivers in reverse
wells run dry
winding through streets
around corners
knocking on our doors and windows<\/p>\n\n\n\n
this grief this dark
this empty will end<\/p>\n\n\n\n
echos and ripples and
the proof of distance<\/p>\n\n\n\n
return to the source
puddles to the ocean
bodies to other bodies
soon<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_5745-1024x683.jpg\")
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