("Thus we will walk...")

YVES BONNEFOY + GALWAY KINNELL

THE ORANGERY

Thus we will walk on the ruins of a vast sky,

The distant landscape will come into fullness

Like a destiny in the vivid light.

The long-sought most beautiful country

Will lie out before us-land of the salamanders.

Look, you will say, at that stone:

Death is in it.

Secret lamp it is this that burns under our gestures,

Thus we walk lighted.