Ulla Hahn's powerful and clear poems, sometimes filled with melancholic tenderness, are messages along the path we live, with paradise behind us and the longing for it ahead. Hahn's attention is focused on the life that is attempting to exist in the here and now, which also includes marriage and aging. Aging signifies losses that are not sugar-coated, but it also signifies experiences, and the experienced person is beautiful. Couples are wisely and willingly driven into this ark by our desire for fulfillment, for endless beginnings, like the rings on our fingers. And we hold each other's hand in front of our eyes, concealing from one another the terrible helmsman at the bow.