Breskens (2005)

The poem Do we settle for Breskens by Kees Ouwens evokes a variety of nostalgic feelings for Ate de Jong. His teenage daughter Lois however reacts in a very different way. 'Do we settle for Breskens' (translation: Peter Verstegen / Martin Cleaver): do we settle for Breskens?; then amicably; need it be, arm to the sea/needy; by the sea/in need of sea?; lest you elucidate your whirling; I mistake myself for you; in reverse there is radiance, no hint; what is keeping you beyond my liking?; It is not your billowing, nor my looking away; even; before I died, the ferry sailed, previously; I bent forward to trout, muddy water; in an inland barge, there the keel was; missing, replaced a net that; you bequeath me? My view, blinding, you share? how; threefold it is: that I am nature, that; I can know it, that it is no good, the day,; advanced to mid year, a river scheldt; speaking in tongues, in my eyes; that grant me the light; but turn away; in the here and now; toward eight,; when I couldn't bear to see; what was shining there in the roads; and so; lovely it was out of our reach.