AFTER DEATH

'What does it feel like when one gets wings, when one 
                                                is dead, say, mother?'
'First your back bends, it grows broad and great.

Then it grows heavier and heavier. It is as if one carried 
                                                a mountain.
There's a shaking and breaking in ribs and backbone 
                                                and marrow.

Then it straightens up with a jerk and bears all, all.
Then one knows that one is dead now and lives in a 
                                                new form.'

For more information, please visit the website of David McDuff and his own pages with the translations.