The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: I

Portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875–1926

Breathing: you invisible poem! Complete interchange of our own essence with world-space. You counterweight in which I rythmically happen.

Single wave-motion whose gradual sea I am: you, most inclusive of all our possible seas- space has grown warm.

How many regions in space have already been inside me. There are winds that seem like my wandering son.

Do you recognize me, air, full of places I once absorbed? You who were the smooth bark, roundness, and leaf of my words.

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