death covers up nakedness
with boy’s flesh and puppy’s head
so, we are brother and sister
let us go down to the void
then
up to the throat in blackness
trying not to see the vociferous heavens
so. you are brother and sister
the gods will say as they hide their faces
on this feast of unripe corn there is no one to lead us
from the fields of stony grain of clearcut hemp
on this day of unshrinking blood there is no one to forgive us
we are brother and sister
the doves
the doves of the squares have taught us
to live
Translated by Peter France