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EARISH Robert Kelly homeophonic translations after poems of Paul Celan EARISH Give me this vague wreck heave her the corn’s teacher to die in his laugh this vague wreck heave her down laugh’s path this wreck that his story’s taken on on hurts hung more gone. = = = WILD YOU THEN NOTE SHARING FONDEST in the view’s tongue rune: the shattered yards hounded a neighbor to rouse and hay run thick, thank him Feel like it’s a war, dash here the freed of twice failed curb’s rock out tone ― go face them. = = = THE STREAKER, salt’s washer, clomb the wiser grove’s keynote in dismal gate and knickers off Off the shudder see grass down even in anchor shot and naked as number dares (ant’s willing) red sail. = = = THE TWISTED NINE gone haggle to hill free vexed the numb unblue sets out the glaciermilk cart the foal vixen again dour thus swimming the seal ear her unbearable un- branding = = = SPADE . Unswam eager fetish buys stitch the sopping from Christ’s bomb, off gay road fun frost spree kin hipped from womb, shy noon neck, day’s fence star flees off, where sand rouses, neat even so bring him the hovel there sign, I need cup lasting, a deep unafraid walker ― coaches art: one seeks there, over him. = = = DO WARS mean death thick Kant I called them weary of all it unfeels = = = DARES OUT A SHOCK HEADED HEARSE daring she goes, feel install earring groves shy mast forty tiles of milk sweaters shovel. = = = ALL DYING SEAGULLS ARE BROKEN? NAY. Gay verse, ether oak see, the brief haughty elf hoofing took her: that the well, the hornet fern, the milk knower, when the mood she tours clock be awayed, the clock be dumb mood, weed her, that she nicked oak then elect throne dear idiot and speak low, the dottle for a biter too for many take a long dying often. = = = POE KNOCKS The unstirred bleak kite’s if a fawn-high hayrick dame fear them in den, she’ll gird a needle key fixed heron to lay her dish hinter sea care. = = = EDGE LOCKED , edge locked. When weary at semester’s veering blond cats going we to malls allowing gong in parish, eye no outgone glued long though arctic is a steer came again sprung and under crooned emission his sighing horn, or under tease to his tease too. = = = OFF ENDS, in harm’s boor, kine unend lick her shoe reaming ― a neem cow in the cloister – being is debt – wide blue ticket to saying, to summon to some wake shore. = = = EAR IN AFTER , for gambled her deepen. Wearish ― ― Noon you, wearish the ― woeing a blowgunner? ― ash it rousing, ease vista thick tube gliding, like tender growing rich meat deem thick doors waxen tensile her under suit virgin build under men gone soggy and flaccid and dank rice unlike bite her. = = = HIM ASKING hide a fall seek to go bet each dish off dense incense they give al- legiance shadowing us too myth-leaked tongue. = = = CALL CROCUS, in hell worth an eye stick brief griped as foam door to endow door hair, unspoiled bar, Spring stuff a lecturing dear to the Delhi design hill of tines, a flock also sick here rose, in the found graven stout seek the mould out. = = = EYE ON STEEPLE FOLD her in linden rage and kestrel: a sphere dying gazing, eye grows us, white evil done wrenching, dizzy us seeing. = = = EACH DRINK WINE out – ’s why glazers unsuck her on the coy knee’s seizure we end as unbenders, goat gift, the steam gavel off, all eyes on the climbing erect one, owes the low stream mill failed underdied. = = = UNLICKED AT they came, he did each in dear or swarm, fly garuda art the known one ― see, be far on the engine, eye in seeking spoke, horn, balled each sore wetter feeling in forced. = = = WORD’S AXLE by dense of dancing: gate to suitor, she leads each on, by fair shall all of them earth lack, each here, a fear faring eye him melts you vex, dust blows to be wiser, faun over her, on unsure word sailing long, it’s why sun’s a gift herd to you, why, on each eye know your want? = = = BACK ON summer, neckings the hooks are full on finger and on lights, troll fearing, then eye an un- flickering word’s deer back on my stair. == = BILE’S WARMER heaving us grace breaker myth, tilling ax tenon thief land― in sail flow or do myth-dirty evil name building half noon. = = = TREAD MEANING of dying, linking Monday, Saturn. Share bone for sea gull the unloaf banning doored drowsing Eyes missed yet the hour can, bleak sighing fear eye naked right get born. = = = ANGER IMPELLED by faun gone from eye on the lass: greened and shore up, shore up and greened. In this laugh’s wretched gain, o eye mill. ©2007 Robert Kelly. Used with permission. |