By Eric Le Roy

                         

REMEMBRANCE by Rainer Rilke

And you wait, keep waiting for that one thing

which would infinitely enrich your life:

the powerful, the unique and uncommon,

the awakening of sleeping stones —

depths that would reveal you to yourself.

In the dusk you notice the book shelves

with their volumes in brown and gold;

and you think of places where you traveled,

of paintings, and shimmering gowns… Read the rest