Maybe this will help

This landscape contains critical secrets.

Question the clouds about it: they act

if you are speaking Russian and start to

tell stories about Tolstoy and his tragic

relationship with the Orthodox Church.

This landscape contains captious secrets.

Try to examine the trees: they let you

know that the situation in the world is far

too capricious - Ukraine, Syria, Israel - 

so they won't answer your question.

This landscape contains contrary secrets.

You present the problem to the rocks:

they laugh uncomfortably and muttering

absently that - so far - nobody succeeded

to wring water from dry stones.

This landscape contains cynical secrets.

As I write my answer in the bored sand

passionate lizards erase the words

- and thereafter - lie in the heedless sun

as of nothing has happened.

This landscape contains critical secrets.