All this Coming and Going

By Benny Andersen

SECLUDED PLACES ARE NOT
WHAT THEY USED TO BE

You search for a word
and find a language

You kiss a mouth
and marry a people

You dig in the garden
and bump into a planet

You look surprised
and you are Springtime.



From Benny Andersen: Cosmopolitan in Denmark.
Borgen 1995

Translated by Cynthia La Touche Andersen