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St-Flying Kidney

 

(from the show ¨Haunted Womb Tour¨)

Translation, Ian Christopher Goodman

 

My kidney, twinkling and radiant,

floats in a crimson sky.

Its shadow shimmers on the ripples of the sea.

 

Such a spurt of blood!

Red sprinkles rise slowly and gracefully

from the ground.

 

My dismembered body

is washed on the beach by the sunset.

Golden vapours embalm the space.

 

O Kidney in the heavens,

by your will may my body be purified.

 

(In turn, a stray child on a southern island

becomes a mother, and Virgin Mary’s lullaby

echoes in the coconut grove.)