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Rozalie Hirs

put on your nakedness

open your eyes in a state of innocence put on your nakedness

aware of the doubts in your mind not simply dismissed

 

ever more supernatural sheath of light foreboding

lustrous future heralded exists only in luminosity you see

 

opening unnoticed one’s own naked bearer of darkness

then as intangible as a single unexpected gift or unforeseen

 

loss temporarily becoming an incident always anticipated

nature that has wrapped this act of mercy in truth to complete it

 

dogged guardian of life is neither essence nor form

but genesis as true infinity possible for every person

 

as individually manageable as inseparable always findable

signature of our nature that ever new unabashed

 

and amazing bodily strength freely exposed and loved

flesh against the spirit longs for the other

 

so make visible gestures targeted action movements

elegantly falling in situ manifesto of freedom

 

capturing its contents knowing indeed the possible even

when there is none left today and today is never done

trek je naaktheid aan

trek je naaktheid aan

open je ogen in staat van onschuld trek je naaktheid aan

gewaar van het eigen twijfelen niet zomaar opgeheven

 

almaar bovennatuurlijker omhulsel van licht aankondiging

glanzend ontvangen toekomst bestaat alleen in de helte zie je

 

opengaan ongemerkt de eigen naakte drager van duister

dan ongrijpbaar als enig onverhoopt geschenk of onvoorzien

 

verlies tijdelijk in wording een gebeurtenis altijd vooronderstelde

natuur die deze gratie te vervolmaken heeft in waarheid gehulde

 

verbeten bewaker van het leven is niet wezen of vorm

maar wording als het ware oneindig mogelijk voor iedere mens

 

afzonderlijk goed te doen als onafscheidelijke onverliesbare

signatuur van onze natuur die steeds nieuwe onbeschaamd

 

heerlijke lichaamskracht vrijelijk blootgesteld liefgehad

het vlees tegen de geest in naar de ander verlangt dus

 

zichtbaar te maken gebaren doelgericht handelende

bewegingen sierlijk in situ vallend manifest van vrijheid

 

ondervangend haar inhoud juist het mogelijke kennen ook

als er niets van over is vandaag en vandaag nooit afkomt

Rozalie Hirs

Rozalie Hirs

(The Netherlands, 1965)

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put on your nakedness

open your eyes in a state of innocence put on your nakedness

aware of the doubts in your mind not simply dismissed

 

ever more supernatural sheath of light foreboding

lustrous future heralded exists only in luminosity you see

 

opening unnoticed one’s own naked bearer of darkness

then as intangible as a single unexpected gift or unforeseen

 

loss temporarily becoming an incident always anticipated

nature that has wrapped this act of mercy in truth to complete it

 

dogged guardian of life is neither essence nor form

but genesis as true infinity possible for every person

 

as individually manageable as inseparable always findable

signature of our nature that ever new unabashed

 

and amazing bodily strength freely exposed and loved

flesh against the spirit longs for the other

 

so make visible gestures targeted action movements

elegantly falling in situ manifesto of freedom

 

capturing its contents knowing indeed the possible even

when there is none left today and today is never done

put on your nakedness

open your eyes in a state of innocence put on your nakedness

aware of the doubts in your mind not simply dismissed

 

ever more supernatural sheath of light foreboding

lustrous future heralded exists only in luminosity you see

 

opening unnoticed one’s own naked bearer of darkness

then as intangible as a single unexpected gift or unforeseen

 

loss temporarily becoming an incident always anticipated

nature that has wrapped this act of mercy in truth to complete it

 

dogged guardian of life is neither essence nor form

but genesis as true infinity possible for every person

 

as individually manageable as inseparable always findable

signature of our nature that ever new unabashed

 

and amazing bodily strength freely exposed and loved

flesh against the spirit longs for the other

 

so make visible gestures targeted action movements

elegantly falling in situ manifesto of freedom

 

capturing its contents knowing indeed the possible even

when there is none left today and today is never done

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