Love’s Reckoning · Poems
LOVE
Poems about wanting, staying and the arithmetic of affection that never quite becomes a future.
A Quiet Ordinary
Ella Tan
Haiku I
April 23rd, 2025 — five days after the first kiss
Haiku II
April 23rd, 2025
Kisses in the Kitchen
For Gijs — May 2025
Peachy Plans
May–June 2025
Gaudí and Mondrian
A portrait of us
The Warmth of Mr G
During the renovation of Lavenderstraat
Zo Blijft het Warm
(Thus It Stays Warm)
Our Home
Winter 2025–2026
Gentle Orbit
September 5th, 2025 — after London, before Yasmina's birthday. She asked him to give it a title. He never did.
What He Could Not Give Equally
July 2025 — the first great wound
Withering Blooms
April 8th, 2026 — the seventh poem, sent into the silence
Demolition of Tulips
Keukenhof — remembered after
He Loved But Could Not Stay
The Demolition of Love
The Sagrada Família
a portrait of Ella
Endurance Test for One
A poem about affection with a built-in emergency exit — devotion that endures a sentence that never becomes a future.