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An excessive erasure of a translated version of Song of Songs

 

Naomi Tarle

 

 

 

 

  1

 

Songwich—hisses sofa—

 

Tinny dove—drought thimble—

 

Black butter ruse—hens of soot—

 

Owl weary—shuffle the herds—

 

O my steed, circle the guild my beloved

My beloved

Behold

Behold

Behold

My beloved—

Our house

 

 

 

 

  2

 

Maltose apple among the wood—lemon sun

 

Lint fruit and meat-sick

 

Lean sight—

drought mapping

out skipping

 

Lattice is a flower pear on the earth

 

 

 

Fig-teeth tarts oil breath

 

 

 

 

  3

 

Hum little on

 

Owl froth—

mouth dim into mouse

 

O cup of kin Israel

 

 

Rat tibia     soft     of anon

 

 

Heaver 

of sea 

of of please

O yeah

 

 

 

 

  4

 

Eat Oh!

 

Air is click     wash     scare

 

 

Your temples hang like my heart

 

 

Mull the garden

                          down from fragrance

 

 

 

 

  5

 

Comb

hone with soil

 

Pound open

 

 

As departure

As city

 

 

Hatch me

 

 

Of charge

Of beets

 

 

Like heat steaming with sleep, legs and pears

 

 

 

 

  6

 

Your way turned roses among lies

 

Banners lock

 

 

 

Oats tear like ash-ing

 

As one

of them

halves

the dawn

 

 

 

 

Moon cession

 

 

Down to the bloom

 

 

 

 

  7

 

O grace and sound

 

 

Mound of gaze

 

 

 

Read your hair captive

 

 

 

Like clusters

breath like apple

 

 

She went gently

to the side

 

 

Night budded

 

 

 

 

  8

 

If only

a

house—

my head

 

 

 

Be the apple tree

like mighty waters

 

 

 

Give house for soil

Eyes for fruit

Well stained

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Naomi Tarle has an MFA in creative writing from Boise State University and an MFA in visual art from California State University Northridge.  She lives, has a studio, and teaches in Southern California.  In summer 2016 she attended the London Intensive residency led by Camden Arts Centre & the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL.  She recently attended a residency in Blanca, Spain, at AADK Centro Negro, from September to November 2019. 

 

 


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