Vanaf mijn boombos kan ik over
continenten naar de bosberg reiken.
Daar in het voetspoor van gazellen
en de civitkat onderdoor oude
Khoisan bomen zal de drenkplek zijn.
Zoals mij ooit de bosbok verscheen
komt in stuivende stilte de waterval neer.
Kniehoog in de stroom, houd me vast,
ruik het aas. Jij bent het grijze majesteit
hier gleden je hoeven af. Op drift
geraakt, geborgen in de oeverwal.
Emma Crebolder is from Limburg in the Netherlands. She studied German at the University of Utrecht and her master’s study at the University of Cologne explored the transition from oral to written literature with focus on one of the novels by the Tanzanian author Aniceti Kitereza. She taught Swahili for several years. Her collection of poems Zerftaal(1995) is the product of the time in South Africa during the 1994 elections that she could experience thanks to the Dutch Fund for Literature. Her poetry works include the polyptych Vergeten (2010),Vallen (2012),Verzoenen (2014) and Opsnuiven (2018). In 1993 she became the first poet laureate of a city, Venlo, in the Netherlands.
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Prachtig Emma!