[ 棺 〜A Coffin ]

今日、脱皮したので昨日の自分の死体を処分しないといけない。
大きめの紙の棺に入れられた死体を薄暗い家に運んで、どこか低い棚の上に置き、
さてどうしようと思う。とにかく私としては自分の死体を見たくない。
見るのが恐いので、処分の仕様がない。
暖炉か何かあれば、このままほうり込んで燃やせるのにな、と色々考える。
ふと棺のふたが薄く開いて、死体の輪郭がちらっと見え、慌ててふたをしめ直す。

川名みずき「夢々の泡」より


When I was a student, perhaps at midnight.

I sloughed off the skin today, and have to dispose of my old body. I carry the
body in a big paper-made coffin into the dim-lit house, place it on some low
shelf, and wonder what to do. I just don't want to see my own body. As I'm
afraid to see it, I can find no way to dispose the body. I wonder and think of
many things, like: if I had a fireplace or something I can throw it into the fire
to be burned. Suddenly the lid of the coffin opens slightly and having a glimpse
of the outline of the body, I hurriedly re-close the lid.