An old order

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Photograph I : Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

An old order

It’s my tea in the morning.

My papers in the afternoon.

The numbers of the evening.

One silence in a night.

I learned to read and write

because the alphabet starts by Q.

Don’t think, I am lucky.

It is in the clouds beyond the grass.

I was good in a new order of small

and little stones. But a story will

not tell a mystery, like that old area.

It’s just, that I was lost, in that night.

Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

Tilburg, January 5, 2019

© 2019 Petra Hermans

Photograph II : John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

(1892-1973)

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