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And Even Words
Translated by Seymour Mayne with Rivka Augenfeld

And even words fade
under autumn’s weight
and die in a final gasp
like the leaves under our feet.

This day of shame sweeps
together the fog of mountains and valleys
and covers exposed branches
and its own expiring face.

All the signs
I have read
in the clefts
of the earth
have fooled me-
I am estranged from the sky-
I am only close
to that great solitude
when the world around me
grows and matures
into the wisdom of silence.

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