Saturday, August 10, 2013

Rainer Maria, It's the Rim Of Light

only the stars in a blue-white extremity
signal to you: can you be that far?

when the wanderer's path is
a ribbon of sea-
a canyon of standing still.

only the stars in a blue-white extremity

translate the evenings to the wind
enabling you to breathe

all this is as if

 reading Rilke in a dream,

surmises through the
dim boughs of your sleep

the crystal extremity of birdsong

long ago longed-for,
etched in the glass
or was it, the snows

not yet, foreclosed on

mary angela douglas 10 august 2013


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