Poem
Julian Talamantez Brolaski
ON HOW TO TRANSFIGURE THE BODY UTTERLY
HOE HET LICHAAM HELENDAL TE TRANSFORMEREN
Ik rende zowat om al die eenzame schoenen eruit te krijgen. Opgesloten in de winkel was ik, ging ik als een dolle stier tekeer. Woest geworden halverwege de race, meer boven me reikend dan opzij, zag ik de goudpapieren façade van een huis gebouwd op lijken. Van een zee helemaal van paarden, die allemaal afstormden op hun dood—O Heer was ik maar heel vroeg doodgegaan
Of anders nooit geboren
Dan had ik je blauwe kijkers nooit gezien
Of je valse tong hoeven horen
In deze haole wijde & ugly wereld werd ik gewekt, de morgenster verenigd met zn zwerver. Heel die goeie ouwe tijd is definitief voorbij, deze habitat is mij ingeboren als een biecht. Blijf altijd bij me . . . neem elke gedaante aan die je wilt . . . liefde is als, liefde is als valkerij.
© Vertaling: 2014, Erik Bindervoet & Robbert-Jan Henkes
ON HOW TO TRANSFIGURE THE BODY UTTERLY
I practically ran to get out all these lonesome shoes. Shut up inside the shop I was, raging like a bull. Maddened in the middest of the race, reaching more up than across, I saw the gold foil façade of a house built on corpses. Of a sea composed entirely of horses, all running to their death—O I wish to the lord I'd never been born
Or died when I was young
Then I'd never have seen your shinin blue eye
Or heard your lyin tongue
Into this ugly & haole world was I wakened, the morning star met with its wanderer. All the good times are past and gone, this habitat imbred me like a shrive. Be with me always . . . take any form . . . love is like, love is like falconry.
© 2012, Julian Talamantez Brolaski
From: Advice for Lovers
Publisher: City Lights, San Francisco
From: Advice for Lovers
Publisher: City Lights, San Francisco
Julian Talamantez Brolaski
(United States of America, 1978)
Julian Talamantez Brolaski is a two-spirit and transgender poet of mixed Mescalero and Lipan Apache, Latin@, and European heritages. Brolaski has published four poetry collections, including Of Mongrelitude (Wave Book, 2017), which was a Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. It is also the lead singer and rhythm guitarist in the country bands Juan & the Pines and the Western Skyline. Brolaski...
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ON HOW TO TRANSFIGURE THE BODY UTTERLY
I practically ran to get out all these lonesome shoes. Shut up inside the shop I was, raging like a bull. Maddened in the middest of the race, reaching more up than across, I saw the gold foil façade of a house built on corpses. Of a sea composed entirely of horses, all running to their death—O I wish to the lord I'd never been born
Or died when I was young
Then I'd never have seen your shinin blue eye
Or heard your lyin tongue
Into this ugly & haole world was I wakened, the morning star met with its wanderer. All the good times are past and gone, this habitat imbred me like a shrive. Be with me always . . . take any form . . . love is like, love is like falconry.
From: Advice for Lovers
ON HOW TO TRANSFIGURE THE BODY UTTERLY
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