To Dublin by K. Schippers

                                                                                                                                                                                         

To Dublin                                                                             

K. Schippers (Gerard Stigter)
1936 - 2021

for Philip Mechanicus

I flew once from Amsterdam to Dublin.

Later I wrote:

Above the North Sea and the English coast

I looked down

and I saw the map from the Bos Atlas:

the word North Sea

printed a little skewed in the water

and the names of the coastal cities

also in the sea

because on the land

there was no room anymore.

If I go again

then I might write:

Above the North Sea and the English coast

looking down,

saw the sea and the English coast.

Or:

The sky was like the colour of my socks,

but I couldn't see

whether it was ebb or flow.

Reality does not suffer

among those observations.

They are only

different points of view.

(Original title: 'Naar Dublin' - from: Poëzie is een daad van bevestiging - Noord- en Zuidnederlandse poëzie van 1945 tot heden - gebundeld en ingeleid door C. Buddingh' en Eddy van Vliet - 1984 - Uitgeverij Manteau, Amsterdam.