BAUDELAIRE 'S 200TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
Stéphane Mallarmé
Charles Baudelaire’s Tomb
The immortal Anubis appears abominable
from the mausoleum that resembles a sewer
with drooling mouth of mud blazing in rubies,
the harsh barking—
and the gas jet twists out of the wick
as if wiping away insults and sufferings
The illumination transforms into a dancing torso—
naked female who merges with Baudelaire’s statue in the city
nothing sacred in this, except that he is the tutor
if absent, and then in another transformation
they are entwined
exuding a ghostly, obviously deathly poison.
Translated from the
French by Kevin Kiely
Kevin Kiely has published over a dozen books including Quintesse (St Martin’s Press, NY), Breakfast with Sylvia (Lagan Press, awarded Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry) and Plainchant for a Sundering (Lapwing Press). More : www.kevinkiely.net
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