Tag: netherlands
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Under dutch skies
The steel guides me to the next station, And outside the window, quiet cornfields rush past. A low sun shines on green field-hands. Their plastic shapes sharp in the light. Towards my destination, dark rain fails. Layers of grey and white, float in from the sea. It is suddenly fall and i see this painting.…
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King for a week
The king stared out of the window across the small stone balcony to three struggling figures on the gravel below. The drizzle was thin enough to have him recognize the two blue uniformed men who were dragging away a frail pink figure. ‘A woman’, he thought, ‘Who else would wear pink?’ At that moment his…
Merit Coba 