1. Help me with a lightning I see flashing
Illuminating a loved one in white dovecotes

2. And calming a twisting he once shaped
Like the bending of a fragile, broken palm frond

3. And out of it emerge shining lights as though they are
Palms receiving success at the outpouring

4. I sat for it while my friends were between a loud gurgling
And the croaking of frogs in the wide valley

5. It struck two wildcats so their wounds poured forth
Into the valley's basin, so I moved to the smooth ground

6. A wide land and smooth earth
Repelling a downpour in a wide open space

7. So it began to sweep the water off every cleft
And gather the mist into white folds

8. I watered with it my weak sister when she came
Since the wellspring was far, not near

9. A watchtower like a flagpole I looked out from atop
Turning my gaze in the wide open space

10. I remained and the atmosphere stayed by me with its moisture
As if I were adding wings to a broken palm frond

11. So when the sun veered its setting away from me
I went down to it standing on the gravel

12. A cheek as smooth as an ostrich feather blade
Like the sword's polished steel surface

13. I lower it by tapping whenever it rises high
And it lifts an eye that is not dry or dirty

14. It grew excited and the birds in their nests
With clutched hands filled with milkweed

15. It has the legs of a male ostrich and the legs of an ostrich hen
Like the stallion of a herd shying from a wolf pack

16. It gathers its eyelids over the eyes after tiring
Like the swoop of an eagle after the hunt

17. I startled with it a flock, pure white of skin
As gazelles startle next to a wolf

18. It pursued three, two, and four
And left others in the path of flowing water

19. Then it came back without fatigue or reluctance
And left water after water gushing

20. With teeth like lances, formed and shaped
I startled with the sword's blade unsheathed

21. I see the man with helpers becoming enflamed
Like the enflaming of a camel in the abode of the sick

22. It's as if the lad never sang among people for a moment
When the two jaws met at the camel's knee