They are being reincarnated, they are being reincarnated . . .
Two or three or five or seven or ten Spirits
are trading:
hides, horns, wings, tails, halos -
eternal props.
Mutually, by agreement, they are devouring each other,
recreating their opposite -
a Reincarnation.
And self-preservation.
I am also waiting my tum -
holding the skin of my previous soul in my hands -
hoping for something better,
sitting (and shivering) on the tail I had yesterday .. .
The New Reincarnation is slow in coming.
Translated from the Bulgarian
by
Ludmilla G. Popova·Wightman
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