Translated by: Zoran Ančevski
(In praise of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick)
Vengeance is a white gush
a poisonous Druid
No man is your equal,
your path, a God’s finger
pointed and real
echo of the Equator,
a frozen soul in the warm waters,
vengeance is a white gush, heading southward!
Your image is unreachable
godly, satanic, immortal
white, haughty – hey, monster
vain and greedy,
hey, Whale
your clear dewy rage
the bloody roar
the weed of your foam
– a lion’s mane on your back
The word can describe you better
than an icon’s paint, you false idol
– perverted sign on the whalers
Merciful marrow, core, rainbow
punish the heathens: hide the truth
you, cartilage of repentance
comply with God’s wisdom
You, Magus
who frolics in the sea’s abyss
– in the womb of the world
You, big nursling
heal your face from the depths
You, perfect lamia
splashy, oily, boiling, deadly…