Legend of the Body
Legend of the body
Well, I was gone
it was on the day the mouth widened open in front of
a vacant audience
a hall world, devoid of ears
and started shouting
As it happened
the hearing merits were sealed
and the hall world faded out to mute
and silence was hovering over the face of the earth
such
a white silence
well bleached
You know,
unlike a wedding dress
like Butoh dancers
white linen cloths with a pinch of pure soul within
white washed face
and a drizzling drop of blood that escaped the ear's cave
all of that, in front of a vacant audience
Do you know how it feels to shout in front the hollow hall world
Familiar with the colossal reverberation?
If the hall world does not mute
the eardrum could explode
hence
there is no voice, nor any that answers
you stand alone in the life capsule
open wide within a body
translated by Nadavi Noked
from: Tractate of faces, Ahshav publisher, Israel, 2015
Copyright © Lali Tsipi Michaeli | Year Posted 2017
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