The two-headed black man – an animal
(The old man is sad and the lion fierce)
With cold orange eyes looked
At sun-flamed old trees
From which flying flames
Rose to heaven like a song. Beneath them
A crowd laughed, drank and traded
Weapons and pots, love and horses.
He wrote the first line.
The crazed prophet with a cruel beard
That thundered like Vulcan’s hammer –
Raising his hands above the panicked earth
(The palms’s shadows – large spiders –
Crawled over the heads of cows and people) –
Began to shout that the nation’s end
Was nearing, that the thread of holiest wool
Dropped at night into clear waves
Showed in a convex silver mirror:
A throng of demons pours to earth:
Leviathan, Essas, Asmodeus,
Baal, Botis, Pruflas, Abbadon,
Agares and Mercurius quadratus
Will burn the town in a howling fire.
He wrote the second line.
Like the remnants of a massacred army
Years traveled through time’s desert,
The moon’s belly waxed and waned,
Trees outside the windows flew to heaven.
Fires and plague hewed the town,
Gods ran screaming to the woods,
In an empty house, the kingdom of shadows,
He wrote the third line.
(Henrikas Radauskas)
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