Niet Van Der Zand

Subterfuge of Love Volume One Niet Van Der Zand

Poems which are gathered from here, there, and everywhere; especially those places where they maybe should never have been in the first place. A compendium of poetry, sorted by happenstance into collections, each of around one hundred poems. Poems pulled together from several decades of writing; they share a lineage; mostly, but not always, they are written with one person in mind. Poems driven by lust, driven by love; driven by being close, driven by being far away; poems of waiting with longing, or perhaps poems of longing with waiting. There may be angst, but there isn't meant to be; the aches, the pains, the losses, they have all subsided; the therapy of the writing has proven to be sufficient. There is some chronology at play, yet the poems are not strictly in chronological order; the muse was met before I was able to rest my hand on her firm tummy. Further editions are in a live state; only today another poem escaped from my mind, as I stood neither poised, nor prepared, behind the ironing board. Will there be an end to this muse, will there be an end to this writing, will there be a reconciliation for the poetry, or will the poems remain, as ever, thoroughly unrequited.