Ghost Opera by/de Mercedes Roffé

Mi versión de un poema de MR, de su libro La ópera fantasma que acabo de terminar de traducir. My translation of a poem by MR from her book Ghost Opera, which I just finished translating.

GHOST OPERA
(Tan Dun)


water
tremolo
kettledrum roll and
water
tremolo
drop
GONG
in the bosom / hollow of
water
tremolo
GONG
vibration expanding
into the mirror / hollow / kettledrum of
water
tremolo
GONG


Then Shakespeare
and Bach come
and talk
sitting face to face
before the hollow / kettledrum / of water
and light
like two solemn
Buddhas
they talk
and Shakespeare says: “We are such a stuff / as dreams are made on.”
“Fugue / Death fugue,” says Bach.