这就是那女孩的头，像掘出的葫芦。
椭圆脸，李子肌肤，李子核似的牙齿。
他们解绷带似的弄掉她头发上的湿蕨
然后细览盘卷的头发，
放出她皮革似的美貌上的空气。
油脂之头，易腐之宝：
她破碎的鼻子黑暗如泥炭块，
她的眼窝空如旧矿场的坑。
迪奥多鲁斯。西库卢斯承认
他对诸如此类已逐渐处之泰然：
被谋杀的、被遗忘的、无名的、可怕的
被斩首的女孩。逼视斧头
和美化，逼视
已开始有点像敬畏的东西。

Here is the girl's head like an exhumed gourd.
Oval-faced, prune-skinned, prune-stones for teeth.

They unswaddled the wet fern of her hair
And made an exhibition of its coil,
Let the air at her leathery beauty.
Pash of tallow, perishable treasure:
Her broken nose is dark as a turf clod,
Her eyeholes blank as pools in the old workings.
Diodorus Siculus confessed
His gradual ease with the likes of this:
Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible
Beheaded girl, outstaring axe
And beatification, outstaring
What had begun to feel like reverence.