"And the drum is ready
when gladioli crown
the horns of the delivered calf
who bounds
and grazes
the hills of grass.
There it will resound,
and its
incantations will become dreams ...
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Translated from the Night
by Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, translated
by Robert Ziller
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