by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
The Mortuary Chest
Language: English
For you have disordered my bones. My organs too have been pummelled and bruised. My skin, still glistening with effort, You flayed and stripped, Meticulously, thin line by thin line by thin line, And hung it up to dry. My thoughts, my little scraps, you flung about, Causality and consequence dismissed, An Escher-land circling ever inward. I cannot identify myself The pieces do not fit And Anyway There is no key
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Janet Oates (b. 1970), "The Mortuary Chest", 2020 [ speaker ]
Score: Janet Oates [external link]  [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2026-08-23
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Word count: 71