Issue #20 (2011) PDF - myweb - Long Island University
Issue #20 (2011) PDF - myweb - Long Island University
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SALOME<br />
Within the Hebrew palace floats a wave<br />
of sun-pierced perfume seeking the unknown<br />
aloft through lattice ceilings, skyward flown,<br />
or dissipating mid the spacious nave.<br />
There Herod sits, his stony aspect grave,<br />
with sunken chest and graying beard full-grown,<br />
hieratic and erect upon the throne,<br />
entranced as though by birdsongs that beslave.<br />
Before him, clad in rich brocade emblazed<br />
with precious gems of flaming radiancy<br />
and moving to a bandore‘s stringed delight<br />
twirls Salome in dance, her right hand raised<br />
displaying, all refulgent in her glee,<br />
a golden-pistilled lotus of pure white.<br />
Trans. G. J. Racz<br />
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