1.
Surrounded by flowers,
bees are drowning
in the housepainter’s pot.

                  2.
Today, I know
I haven’t done as much
for this world as a tree.

                  3.
Children bring home
stones instead of friends;
the blackbird has a golden eye.

                  4.
Spring, that young man
is wearing the shirt
I was wounded in.

1968

 = Sarah Kobrinsky