«Kumasuk biliknya di tengah malam. / Kekasih tidur. Bulan bersinar / Dari jendela. Dan cahaya maya / Bermain pada atlas kain gebar. Kekasihku tidur menelentang. / Terkulai buah dadanya ke sisi. / Wujudlah hayatnya di mimpi yang tenang / Macam air di gelas penuh berisi.»
«High up on a snowy peak, / I carved a sonnet with a steel blade. / Time passes. To this day, perhaps, / The snows still bear my solitary mark. High up, where skies are ever blue, / In the exhilarating clarity of winter, / Only the sun to witness, as my knife / Inscribed the poem in the ...»
«Sultry heat; dry, dead grass; endless steppes; / Just the horizon’s faint, blue haze. / Over there, the skeleton of a horse’s head, / And here, look here! A Stone Idol. What sleepy, Hat features! / What primeval coarseness of body! / Yet I stand still; I fear you... But you. / You m...»
«At the gates of Zion, over Kedron, / There is a windswept hillock; / And where the wall gives temporary shade, / I happened to sit down beside a leper, / Who was eating toxic seeds. His stench was indescribable. / The fool was poisoning himself. / But he would smile, for all that, / L...»