Shoes, secret face of my inner life:

鞋，我内部生命隐秘的脸，

Two gaping toothless mouths,

两只张开的没牙齿的嘴，

Two partly decomposed animal skins

两块部分腐烂的动物的皮

Smelling of mice nests.

散发着老鼠窝的气味。

My brother and sister who died at birth

在你们里面继续他们存在的

Continuing their existence in you,

出生即死去的我的兄妹，

Guiding my life

引领着我的生命

Toward their incomprehensible innocence.

朝向他们无法理解的纯贞。

What use are books to me

书籍于我又有何用

When in you it is possible to read

如果在你们里面也可以领会

The Gospel of my life on earth

我尘世生命的福音，以及

And still beyond, of things to come?

仍遥远的、未来的事情？

I want to proclaim the religion

我要宣扬我为你们完美的谦卑

I have devised for your perfect humility

而发明的宗教，

And the strange church I am building

以及我正建造的以你们

With you as the altar.

为圣坛的奇异的教堂。

Ascetic and maternal, you endure:

禁欲而母性，你们忍受着：

Kin to oxen, to Saints, to condemned men,

牛、圣徒、死刑犯的亲属，

With your mute patience, forming

以你们喑哑的耐性，塑造着

The only true likeness of myself.

我自己唯一真实的写照。