鞋，我内部生命隐秘的脸，

Shoes, secret face of my inner life:

两只张开的没牙齿的嘴，

Two gaping toothless mouths,

两块部分腐烂的动物的皮

Two partly decomposed animal skins

散发着老鼠窝的气味。

Smelling of mice nests.

在你们里面继续他们存在的

My brother and sister who died at birth

出生即死去的我的兄妹，

Continuing their existence in you,

引领着我的生命

Guiding my life

朝向他们无法理解的纯贞。

Toward their incomprehensible innocence.

书籍于我又有何用

What use are books to me

如果在你们里面也可以领会

When in you it is possible to read

我尘世生命的福音，以及

The Gospel of my life on earth

仍遥远的、未来的事情？

And still beyond, of things to come?

我要宣扬我为你们完美的谦卑

I want to proclaim the religion

而发明的宗教，

I have devised for your perfect humility

以及我正建造的以你们

And the strange church I am building

为圣坛的奇异的教堂。

With you as the altar.

禁欲而母性，你们忍受着：

Ascetic and maternal, you endure:

牛、圣徒、死刑犯的亲属，

Kin to oxen, to Saints, to condemned men,

以你们喑哑的耐性，塑造着

With your mute patience, forming

我自己唯一真实的写照。

The only true likeness of myself.