AWAKENED BY AN UNEXPECTED SILENCE

(РАЗБУЖЕН НЕОЖИДАННОЙ ТИШИНОЙ)

Awakened by an unexpected silence,

a sudden gift from heaven, white as white,

with indignation I reject – should say

indifference – the horrors of the night.

Vertically downwards, through the matted

growing things that crowd my garden plot,

here comes the God of atmospheric matters,

in order to disperse our parlous lot.