Day 126 of year 3
Sonnets to Orpheus Book II, 1
By Rilke, Trans Barrows and Macey
Breath, you invisible poem!
Pure, continuous exchange
with all that is, flow and counterflow
where rhythmically I come to be.
Each time a wave that occurs just once
in a sea I discover I am.
You, innermost of oceans,
you, infinitude of space.
How many far places were once
within me. Some winds
are like my own child.
When I breathe them now, do they know me again?
Air, you silken surround,
completion and seed of my words.
From In Praise of Mortality https://amzn.to/3f9QeYu
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