A non-linear index of poetic works, mapped by recurring gestures, tone, form, and conceptual focus.
I. Poetics of Perception & Epistemic Tension
returnRelation() (2025)
Syntax-driven ontology via code; poetic recursion on ethics, visibility, and authorship.
- Themes: authorship, ethical recursion, mirror/obfuscation, language-as-structure
- Stylistics: code metaphors, fragmentary logic, declarative lines
- Keywords:
return relation;,if (consent) => 'be kind';, grand narrative, lens
Smoky Mirror / Rokerspieël (2025)
Bilingual meditation on clarity and concealment; seeing and being seen.
- Themes: perception, paradox, poetic mirrorwork
- Stylistics: dual-language interplay, tonal shifts, symmetry/asymmetry
Typoetry (2002)
Semiotic terrain mapped as digital scatter; syntax and structure disassembled.
- Themes: techno-fragmentation, visual data, poetic noise
- Stylistics: info-lyric, beatless staccato, conceptual verse
picturesque (2002)
Wordplay pushed toward breakdown; ironic beauty in linguistic redundancy.
- Themes: language, protocol, futility
- Stylistics: enjambment, ironic register, compression
II. Gestures of Intimacy & Fragility
Unthinkable (2002)
Intimate binary of loss/love in a digital syntax.
- Themes: intimacy, programming language, absence
- Stylistics: minimal stanzas, embedded logic, variable repetition
Private Roads (?Exposure) (1997)
Exposure as vulnerability; fragmented memory as terrain.
- Themes: memory, secrecy, physical and symbolic interiority
- Stylistics: parentheticals, broken pacing, lowercase drift
Lag (1991)
Physical sensation as temporal anchor in joy/pain convergence.
- Themes: youth, intimacy, impermanence
- Stylistics: Afrikaans rhythm, sensory compression
dream catcher (2005)
Subversion of spiritual cliché with subtle menace.
- Themes: magic, disillusionment, play
- Stylistics: airy-to-tense tonal progression
Man met niks (2025)
Biting, minimalist parody in Afrikaans.
- Themes: satire, minimalism, social critique
- Stylistics: clipped rhyme, grotesque humor
III. Performativity, Persona & Social Masking
baroque arabesque (2002)
Ornate sensuality meets ironic detachment.
- Themes: seduction, persona, beauty-as-armor
- Stylistics: enjambment, lush diction, ironic echoes
Waitress (2001)
Femininity and service staged through melancholy glamour.
- Themes: performance, desire, indulgence
- Stylistics: staged lighting, gesture, still-life framing
Carnival (Icarus) (1997)
Allegorical descent; desire and artifice blur.
- Themes: spectacle, duality, light/shadow
- Stylistics: mythic allusion, tonal contrast, allegorical field
Simplicity (1997)
Wry critique of oversharing and emotional concealment.
- Themes: alienation, emotional containment
- Stylistics: short lines, controlled flatness, irony
Sometimes (1997)
Momentary beauty as a form of grace.
- Themes: harmony, clarity, ephemerality
- Stylistics: clean diction, haiku-like cadence
IV. Minimalism & Lyrical Clarity
Fluffy White Clouds (2005)
Optimistic lyric; tonal openness.
- Themes: peace, surface beauty, lightness
- Stylistics: plain diction, horizontal movement
Winter Morning Commute (2005–2009)
Austerity and transience observed on a cold city morning.
- Themes: passage, routine, urban mood
- Stylistics: spare imagery, rhythm of observation
From the Night (1997)
Gentle evocation of pain and healing.
- Themes: spirit, scars, resilience
- Stylistics: spiritual tone, lyrical pacing
Eindoplaas (1990s)
Peaceful surrender at the edge of time.
- Themes: closure, quiet, finality
- Stylistics: pastoral lyric, nostalgic imagery
V. Fragmentation, Collapse & Glitch Aesthetics
Burning Meta (2025)
Post-human authorship under erasure.
- Themes: AI, collaboration, glitch poetics
- Stylistics: compression, allusion, code-hybridity
Broken (1997)
Loss of creative rhythm and descent into silence.
- Themes: depression, disconnection
- Stylistics: broken rhythm, bleeding metaphor
Bleek linne (1990s)
Haunted image of social exclusion.
- Themes: race, marginality, spectral presence
- Stylistics: sparse Afrikaans, ghosted imagery
STOP (1990s)
Angelic doom as political critique.
- Themes: violence, despair, critique
- Stylistics: jarring syntax, biblical inversion
VI. Mythic & Spiritual Registers
Eksodikus 11:1–10 (1990s)
Biblical poetics in exile and ending.
- Themes: flight, finality, desert
- Stylistics: allegorical voice, scriptural cadence
Val (1991)
The beauty and solemnity of descent.
- Themes: fall, reverence, collapse
- Stylistics: formal Afrikaans, solemn tone
Sondagmôre (1990s)
Simple grace of Sunday childhood.
- Themes: innocence, peace, faith
- Stylistics: nostalgic, elemental
VII. Embodied Gesture & Movement
More Music (1997)
Transformation through rhythm.
- Themes: recovery, tempo, bodily renewal
- Stylistics: musical metaphor, pacing
Another Portrait (1997)
Sculptural image blurred into impermanence.
- Themes: representation, fading presence
- Stylistics: imagery of dissolution
Leading On (1997)
Approaching death as tonal diminuendo.
- Themes: mortality, endings, legacy
- Stylistics: spare tone, terminal cadence
o’speel (1990s)
Playful erotic cadence in Afrikaans.
- Themes: intimacy, sensuality
- Stylistics: onomatopoeia, dark tenderness
Appendix: Chronological Cross-Reference
- 2025: returnRelation(), Burning Meta, Man met niks, Smoky Mirror
- 2005–2009: Winter Morning Commute, Fluffy White Clouds, dream catcher
- 2004: Farewell Lionel
- 2002: Unthinkable, picturesque, baroque arabesque, Typoetry
- 2001: Waitress
- 1997: Leading On, From the Night, Private Roads, More Music, Another Portrait, Broken, Carnival (Icarus), Sometimes, Simplicity
- 1991–1990: Lag, Val, Sondagmôre, o’speel, Eksodikus, Bleek linne, Eindoplaas, STOP, Wals
