Poetry is the subject of the poem.

诗是诗歌的主题，

From this the poem issues and

诗歌藉此提问并

To this returns. Between the two.

返回此处。在这两者之间，

Between issue and return, there is

在提问和回归之间，有一种

An absence in reality.

现实的缺席，

Things as they are. Or so we say.

事物如其所是。或者我们如此说说。

But are these separate? Is it

但这些可分吗？难道它是

An absence for the poem, which acquires

一种为诗歌的缺席，在那里

Its true appearances there, sun’s green,

获得它真实的外表，太阳的绿，

Cloud's red, earth feeling, sky that thinks?

云的红，感受的大地，思考的天空？

From these it takes. Perhaps it gives.

它从中获取。也许它会给与，

In the universal intercourse.

在宇宙的交融中。