オルゴール（Orgel）

まどろみ
めざめて
くらがりで
川をくだる
魚を
待ってみても
ゆびさきに
触れるのは
骨のかけら

まどろみ
めざめて
碧眼の
詩人に
ものの名を
たずねても
書かれた言葉は
子音ばかり

まどろみ
めざめて
怒りも
うたがいも
さげすみも
あざけりも
呪いの言葉も
忘れ果てて
まどろむ

緑青の花を飾り
首をかしげる
オートマタ
歯抜けの鉄櫛が
くりかえす
禍歌


I fell into a doze and awoke in a dream.
I was waiting for fishes coming down a river.
But what I caught was only ashes of someone.

I fell into a doze and awoke in another dream.
I asked a poet with blue eyes the name of things.
But his handwritings on a parchment were only consonants.

I　fell into a doze and forgot all of anger, suspicion, contempt, ridicule, and incantation.

An old automaton decorates her hair with a green copper flower, and sings repeatedly an ominous song with a steel comb missing some of its teeth.