You darkness, that I come from,
I love you more than all the fires
that fence in the world,
for the fire makes
a circle of light for everyone,
and then no one outside learns of you.
But the darkness pulls in everything:
shapes and fires, animals and myself,
how easily it gathers them!—
powers and people—
and it is possible a great energy
is moving near me.
I have faith in nights.
–Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Robert Bly
- woodcut by Vija Celmins
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Rilke, Bly---a rich duo for the soul.
on the wings of the solstice---hugs to the 3 of you,
the other L
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