Terence Dooley

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Translated by Terence Dooley

l(a/o)st love / felix phoenix / postrim(e/o)rías de amor / fé(n/l)ix

from the
  spilt
  semen-
-Tal
deines Körper-
                        -suaded
from love
                        in the valley
of your body
from ash
                        may be reborn
                        our phoenix
wings
Translated by Terence Dooley
der(r)
         amado
se(r)men
              Tal
deines Körper
                        suadido
de ceniza
                nací
                        eran
nuestras alas
Blind now today / Erblinde schon heute

Blind now today
I blink at you
                        through eyes/’I’s
with-(h)er-ed
e raz(or)ed
                        by (h)ours
saved from the terro(u)r
            now washing back
tear-ingly
                        into my
                        empty eye/I
Translated by Terence Dooley
Erblinde schon heu
                               te
a(d)m(ir)o
con ojo-s-ajados
por las horas ahorradas al horror
que ahora vuel
                        ve
ya sin sal-ida
hacia el vací(o/[e)go]
If I go blind / sI go ciego

Zur Blindheit über-
redete Augen
eyes over-
whelmed by blindness we
generated and
we were light
and if you
            say
               night
if I (s)peak
            in your re-membered skin
I survive
            in blind
(de)light
and we shall live
again(st) blindness
Translated by Terence Dooley
Zur Blindheit über-
redete Augen
                     eramos
luz y si me di
                     ce
  nit
en tu piel red(e/u)cido
per(ex)istiré aunque cie
                                      go
zaremos [y] seremos
contra la ce(gu/rt)eza
Co-nascence / Reconacimiento

Im Quell deiner Aug
                                en-rapt-ure
words/
           opened (g)listened to
                time-out-laid
(the gates)
tempted by the dark—
nest
my hurts
(mein herz)
with the bals—
amour—ing
                   your skin
                   skein

            and

hier werfe ich
ein Herz das geweilt unter Mensch
                                                       engenders
rancour—age
                      heartsplit
by the flame-dagger
                    nothinged
in despite of
                     being born(e)
in your co-nascence.
Translated by Terence Dooley
Im Quell deiner Aug
                                 en(c/t)endí
tus pal
            abras (d)el tiempo tend
                                                  ido
[las puertas]
tentado por lo os
                             curo
mis her-idas
con el báls
                 amo(r)
que/de tu piel
va hilando

y

hier werfe ich
ein Herz, das geweilt unter Mensch
                                                           engendrara
el rencoeur
                  (h)en[cen]dido
por la daga
                  nada
del/en el des-precio
                               (d)el nacer

para conacerte.
werdederdubist / werdederdubist

become ourself
the b(l)est
surrender consummated
                                and I
am
                        laminated
on to her
in her eyes our ’I’s
her presence as before
dis(solved) into mine
int(w)o (w)on(e)
glimmer
in the slow space beyond
the song of pain

erstmali(g/ch)s
Translated by Terence Dooley
la (b/r)endicción
ganada o todo
                        yme
a ella
            la-mi-(n/r)ada
pre-sencia la de antes
desteyo(s) ya no quie
                                    ro [sino]
                                         dar
en el (d)espacio
sin doloor
in-decibles mas dichosos

erstmali(g/ch)s
dedicalogue / dedicálogo

you shall give shelter  (how shelterless)
in your shade
you shall give value   (how valueless)
to what you have
you shall give succour (what despair)
against adversity

you shall give thanks  (what thanklessness)
to the one who caused you pain
you shall give cards    (discard the referees)
to the one who knows how to play

you shall give joy        (what joylessness)
to the one who kept silent
you shall give knots     (what nakedness)
to bind us
you shall give in your dandling   (what un-numbing)
your body to the abyss

you shall give a life      (what unmasking)
more dear than this one
you shall give in song   (what disillusion)
all that is lost
Translated by Terence Dooley
que des amparo
a la sombra de ti
que des precio
(de/a) lo que tienes
que des pecho
(de/a) lo adverso

que des gracias
a quien te hizo sufrir
que des cartas
a quien sepa ju(z)gar

que des dicha
a quien guardó silencio
que des nudos
para seguir atados
que des en tu mecer
el cuerpo sobre un abismo

que des en más cara
vida que esta
que des en canto
de lo perdido
poor man’s hermen(e/a)utics / hermen(é/á)utica menestero(s)sa

catching
fire is not enough
one only has to
get it (lit)
to keep it in

playing is not enough
the blurred
                   word
ar(r)ose nos sillons
                                 arise
Translated by Terence Dooley
com prender
el fuego no basta
solo se debe
en(c/t)enderlo
para ma(n/s)tenerlo

con jugar no basta
el verbo
             rros(s)o
arrose nos sillons

hora de levantarse
we (w)arm each other / nos a(r)mamos

we (w)arm each other
with knowing patience
hidden in silence
for the (g/fl)ame
in which we (bu/yea)rn
to tell our truth
Translated by Terence Dooley
nos a(r)mamos
(con/de) paciencia
oculta de silencio
para el (j/f)uego
en que ard(ec)imos
(de/la) verdad
definition / definición

po-
-em bers of your fire
Translated by Terence Dooley
ceniza que nace de tu cuerpo
ema
deca(y)log(ue/os) / decá[e]logo

you shall give longing (what distaste)
for the forbidden

you shall give credit (what disbelief)
to the innocent
                         repentant sinner

you shall give spirit (what dispiritedness)
to remain upright
                            to a stone
converted
                  in vain

you shall give soul (how soulless)
                                                        where ever
the body needs

you shall give to taste (what desecration)
your febrile believer’s skin

you shall give tokens (disrobing)
of yourself to the wounded
why am I playing?

you shall give pieces (destructions)
of what you were:
flesh be born
                        what shall be

you shall control (what misrule)
your feeling(s)
since memory
may s(ie/a)ve

you shall calculate (decipher)
the unthink(s)ab(l/r)e
that falls and severs

you shall give in song (what disenchantment)
what was (not)
                        sa(i)d
Translated by Terence Dooley
que des gana
de lo prohibido

que des crédito
(de/a)l inocente
                      [r]rado
de sus errores

que des ánimo
(de/para) seguir en pie
                                    dra
convertido
                 en vano

que des alma do
                          quiera
el cuerpo

que des a catar
tu piel en fe (b/c)recida

que des prendas
de ti lo adherido[s]
¿para qué juego?

que des trozos
de lo que eras:
carnaz[c]a
                lo que será

que des en freno
de lo[s] sentido[s]
pues que es criba
la memoria

que des cifras
[de/a] lo impensable
que cae y corta

que des en canto
[de] lo que no fue
                             dich(o/a)

Terence Dooley

Translated by Terence Dooley

l(a/o)st love / felix phoenix / postrim(e/o)rías de amor / fé(n/l)ix

Blind now today / Erblinde schon heute

If I go blind / sI go ciego

Co-nascence / Reconacimiento

werdederdubist / werdederdubist

dedicalogue / dedicálogo

poor man’s hermen(e/a)utics / hermen(é/á)utica menestero(s)sa

we (w)arm each other / nos a(r)mamos

definition / definición

deca(y)log(ue/os) / decá[e]logo