[Again and again, however we know the landscape of love]

Again and again, however we know

the landscape of love

and the little churchyard there,

with its sorrowing names,

and the frighteningly silent abyss

into which the others fall:

again and again the two of us walk out together

under the ancient trees, lie down again and again

among the flowers, face to face with the sky.

Translated by Stephen Mitchell