Love Sonnet: If you're a god, Love, tell me, what's your heaven?
If you're a god, Love, tell me, what's your heaven?
If you're a lord what income, what estates?
Where are your underlings and all your servants?
What place in this world do you populate?
If our mortal veil serves to disguise you,
what are your lands, what rooms for you suffice?
If you are rich, where are your funds invested?
Why go you naked into sun and ice?
Do you know what I think, Love, of all this?
That painting you with wings and blinded eyes,
shows how both life and art portray you right.
And I do, too, since just the honest face
of my own Lisi makes you so afraid,
you seem, Love, like a chicken without sight.
Translated by Alix Ingber
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