2. Chemistry … life and ideas

3. When I close a book I open life

4. I hear faltering cries

5. And the water throbs with fish, thighs, the chalk ribs of the shore

6. And the whole of night clings to its shores, by dawn, the scaly forms of lizard-lion

7. And wakes up singing, arousing in the calm

8. You play in the sun as in a tidal river

9. You become the delirious youth, … The drunken wave the power of the heat

10. There are grief and ruins, and you are the miracle

11. your beautiful figure and … your shining eyes

12. And in my solitude thoughts

13. Books of forest or snow, depth or sky

14. I come out of books to people orchards

15. to learn about life … from life

16. And soar above the silence of these mountain coffers

17. Thick, pristine beast … Serene like the moon’s flesh

18. Peace for the twilights to come

19. Tranquil, with minuscule eyes to see – and to think

20. Everything on earth bristled, the bramble

21. And water becomes the chemistry of life and its own bright grace

22. And I wonder about the world I love