The poem is by the Sint-Niklaas young poet for 2019, Lena Serwir. Each year the “Kinderstadsdichter” writes a Sinterklaas poem.

Sleep lingers in the house
for humans and mouse

my shoes are on watch
deep into the night

I drew a fruit bowl
in which you can put little mandarin oranges

wrote you a letter
on my most beautiful origami paper

you write me back
with letter cookies?